PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Egalitarianism
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Takes up the theme of plato"s republic: what is justice. Style reminiscent of the social contract tradition (hobbes) Account of justice as an analytical model for how to think about social institutions. Rawls places his theory squarely in the tradition of political liberalism": the tradition in political theory that recognizes incorporating a degree of toleration, unlike plato, rawls is interested in justice primarily as a institutional virtue. A way social institutions can be or fail to be. Institutions make up the basic structure" of society: Political constitution and arrangement of public offices and services. The economic system: comprising production, distribution, and consumption. The set of laws and the ways in which they are enforced: courts and prisons. These institutions define the matrix in which citizen lives are led, and so must be fair; in order for the society as a whole to have a hope of being fair.