PHILOS 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Justice As Fairness, Political Liberalism
25 May 2019
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Later works include: political liberalism (1993), the law of people (1999), justice as. "the fundamental idea in the concept of justice is fairness. " Things as they are now are patently unfair. Those who benefit from current injustice don"t need to think about unfairness. We know what kind of society we want to live in. Social practices or institutions denotes sets of rules and procedures that define what is done together, as a society. These are the background conditions against we collectively "act" as a society. Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive scheme of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar scheme of liberty for others. Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone"s advantage (difference principle); and (b) attached to positions and offices often to all.
