Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Justice As Fairness, Procedural Justice
16 May 2016
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Rawls on justice (2) what are the principles of justice: we are in the original position, behind the veil of ignorance, and. We are denied knowledge about ourselves that is morally arbitrary. Accidents of birth, natural or social, are things you do not know of yourself. Whatever you want, you will achieve it if you are not being disadvantaged by others. Rights and liberties; income and wealth; they are social goods. Whatever you think is good, you want to have liberties, you want to have the means to do things, Some rights must have the same equality to security (security of the person) We must benefit the less fortunate, for if we fall to the same place ourselves, we may benefit the same way they did. Everyone should be born equal with the same rights (from the get go, they are all equally advantaged)
