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Personhood Usurped: The Law of Peoples or the Mystificatio n of the Liberal State Emiliano Ruiz Parra University College London I. Introduction Charles W. Mills wrote that John Rawls’s The Law of Peoples is built on a theoretical framework that mystifies both the past and the present 1 . In this paper, I will demonstrate how such mystification enables Rawls to idealize the contemporary liberal state, granting it a moral nature similar to personhood, and thus, shielding it from any potentially profound ref ormati ve act ion . I wil l deve lop a met hodo logi cal cri ti que. Fir st, I wil l def end an empirical and non-id eal the ore tical appr oac h to criti ciz ing Rawls, usi ng Rawls’ s own claims on history, politics and economics. My aim will be to show how Rawls, in order to buttress his idealization of the liberal state, undertakes an inversion of facts and principles through presenting ideals as historical realities. My claim is that Rawls turns ought into is: The aspiration is told as if it were historical fact while real facts are obscured, dismissed or ignored. Mills critiques the Rawlsian process of sanitizing history from its legacies of exploitation, white supremacy, imperialism and gender oppression. I seek to analyse the methodological process through which such sanitation is carried out. Secondly, I will address Rawls’s claim that corporate agents have a moral nature, or how actual states can become ideal peoples through a political exercise of reason. I propose 1 Mills 2010, 26. 1

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