Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Thought Experiment
16 Feb 2016
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This lecture: 1st part of rawls"s theory of justice, where we discuss the whys of justice. Next lecture: 2nd part of rawls"s theory of justice, where we discuss what his theory is. Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. ". Justice as fairness": "conveys the idea that the principles of justice are agreed to in an initial situation that is fair. ". Not an answer to the social contract question. We are now discussing only by what principles justice ought to be regulated by. All are born into some society", but you did not choose to be born into the society. Represents the position we are to imagine being in, in order to choose what society to live in. Characterized by we do not know of ourselves. If society is structured by principles that would be chosen to be in the original position, than we could figure out what they are.
