POLS 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Procedural Justice, Distributive Justice, Justice First
25 Oct 2016
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A theory of justice: an overview of the theory. The main idea of the theory of justice. My aim is to present a conception of justice which generalizes and carries to a higher level of abstraction the familiar theory of the social contract as found, say in, locke, rousseau, and kant. The guiding idea is that the principle of justice for the basic structure of society are the object of the original agreement. They are the principles that free and rational persons concerned to further their own interests would accept in an initial position of equality as defining the fundamental terms of their association. fairness. them as just and unjust. This way of regarding the principles of justice i shall call justice as. A group of persons must decide once and for all what is to count among. Justice as fairness among the essential features of this situation is that.
