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A THEORY OF JUSTICE - Iowa State University
A THEORY OF JUSTICEJohn Rawls is Professor Emeritus at Harvard University . He is the author of the well-known andpath breaking A THEORY of JUSTICE (Harvard, 1971) and the more recent work Political Liberalism(Columbia, 1996). These excerpts from A THEORY of JUSTICE provide a skeletal account of Rawls'sproject of using social contract THEORY to generate principles of JUSTICE for assigning basic rightsand duties and determining the division of social benefits in a society. Rawls argues that the twoprinciples that would be reached through an agreement in an original position of fairness andequality are 1) each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic libertycompatible with a similar liberty for others and 2) social and economic inequalities are to bearranged so that they are both a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's adva
liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests. The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable
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