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cord-029338-r8vf6pqt	Chun, Jack	A Rawlsian Model of Land Justice for Hong Kong: The Controversy on the Development of the North New Territories	2020-04-29		.txt	text/plain	8909	359	49	In this chapter, a Rawlsian model is adopted in analysing the dynamics between politics, governance and justice in the land controversy of Hong Kong. Confronting these questions, I will first introduce three conceptual tools found in Rawls' theory of justice (1972, 1996, 2001) and then show how the Rawlsian model is applicable to the general situation in Hong Kong. From their perspective, the government should not unjustly allow a selected group of stakeholders (i.e. the developers) to unfairly take advantages of the situation when Hong Kong people collectively facing such a serious land problem. This point is important because only by underscoring this minimal moral sense can Rawls fully answer the challenge, such as the one raised by Habermas (1995) , that merely from the self-interested rationality (private reason) one can never yield reasonableness (public reason) in one's judgement, which is required for the impartial agents in the original position to formulate the two principles of justice, especially the difference principle.	./cache/cord-029338-r8vf6pqt.txt	./txt/cord-029338-r8vf6pqt.txt