(Keynote Lecture, 5th Philosophers' Rally, Ateneo de Davao University, 2017)
The philosophical itinerary of this
inquiry will not seek to offer an alternative theory of justice to that of
Rawls. Instead, it will attempt to refine the procedural requirements[1] in
the Rawlsian starting point and reconstruct its normative content in order to
include situated and historical contexts. It will revise the ahistorical nature
of the Rawlsian ‘original position’, using the context of a ‘politics of
difference’, by taking into account the reality of unfair ‘positional
differences’ in society.[2]
