Justiça e violência: um paralelo entre John Rawls e Eric Weil

After its publication in 1971, John Rawls' A Theory of Justice generated intense debate. Eric Weil published his Political Philosophy ten years before Rawls, in 1961. Both use terms such as community, society, rational and reasonable, with their own meanings. The purpose of this paper is to broaden the debate around Rawls' work by making a parallel with Eric Weil, using the aforementioned concepts. The parallel also takes into account the Weilian concept of violence, unavoidable for the author's definition of what he understands as reasonable. Weil's concept of violence can then provide a critique of Rawls's notion of justice, limits of judgment, and the philosopher's own notion of reasonableness. At the end, a possible answer that Rawls' thought offers to Weilian violence is pointed out.