6/24/2023 0 Comments Rawls j 1971 a theory of justiceSecondly, inequalities either social or economic are only to be allowed if the worst off will be better off than they might be under an equal distribution. Together, they dictate that society should be structured so that the greatest possible amount of liberty is given to its members, limited only by the notion that the liberty of any one member shall not infringe upon that of any other member. The resultant theory is known as "Justice as Fairness", from which Rawls derives his two principles of justice. Of course, he doesn’t want to infringe on our liberties, so it’s a very delicate balancing act to accomplish this in modern times.Ī Theory of Justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls, in which the author attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society) by utilising a variant of the familiar device of the social contract. He brought Poltical Philosophy back into contemporary debates by focusing on justice, fairness, and egalitarianism by bringing in a bit of ethics to help understand our obligations to others in the political state. John Rawls, as mentioned in Chapter 2 of this work, is one of the most influential Philosophers of the 20 th Century.
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