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An 11 page paper discussing Rawls'
system of justice, which must be based on the least advantaged individual in the society.
That one claiming unfairness in justice obviously becomes the least advantaged. That
individual then provides the basis for the system of justice no longer being fair, and policy
makers are obliged to withdraw once more behind the 'veil of ignorance' in order to
accommodate the individual and his changing society. The paper also provides background
on the philosophy of Kant and Mill, who provides the framework of utilitarianism that
Rawls reshapes into his theory of justice. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Page Count:
11 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSRawlsTheo.rtf
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important philosopher of the Left to emerge in the past century, warmly embracing liberalism from a vantage unknown to those preceding him. The 19th century philosophers had used the
"state of nature" as their beginning points for their political philosophies; Rawls is unique in that he uses as his original position that of justice. Under justice, survival is
fair and is not privileged only to those most "fit" for it. The societys least advantaged individual is the one on which the entire system is built, for it
is only in using this base that justice can be fair. Fairness is paramount. Rawls Philosophical Basis
Rawls (1971) embraces many of the assumptions on which philosophers such as Kant and Mill worked, but he makes careful distinctions between them and the concept of
fairness. He retains the principles of utilitarianism yet manages to wholly alter its focus. To grasp Rawls concepts, it is necessary to first grasp those he is altering
to fit his own worldview. Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) wrote that several events led
to his awakening and allowed him to become a critical philosopher, "synthesizing the rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume. Kant proposed that objective reality is known only
insofar as it conforms to the essential structure of the knowing mind. Only objects of experience, phenomena, may be known, whereas things lying beyond experience, noumena, are unknowable, even though
in some cases we assume a priori knowledge of them. The existence of such unknowable things-in-themselves can be neither confirmed nor denied, nor can they be scientifically demonstrated" (Anonymous kant).
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