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A 7 page review of Rawls’ concept of justice and its integral relationship with fairness. Reiterates Rawls’ two principles of justice and explains how they relate to concepts such as equality and common good. The author contrasts Rawls’ views with those of philosophers like Immanuel Kant and John Stewart Mill. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of justice has been analyzed by philosophers for centuries. Formulated during the early half of the twentieth century, John Rawls two principles of justice, in particular, offer more contemporary
insight into this concept. Rawls, a political theorists, insight is considered by many, in fact, to be superior to a strictly utilitarian approach to justice. Rawls identifies the
concept of fairness as being fundamental to that of justice and as being an integral aspect of social contract (Rawls, 1958). He insist that people be a primary consideration
in justice and not be considered as a mere means for that justice. To Rawls even the libertarianist premise that an individuals rights should never be infringed upon should
take second place to social equality as a whole. Rawls emphasizes, in fact, that rights must not be just an ideology but a useful component of society as a
whole. Indeed, Rawls contends that the "mutual acknowledgment of principles by free persons who have no authority over one another" insists upon the hand in hand relationship which exists
between fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958, 336). The utilitarian approach, on the other hand, does not acknowledge the integral connection between fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958).
Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preceded him. These parallels are inevitable given that philosophers have
argued for centuries about such broad topics as right verses wrong. The manner in which we are philosophically committed to dealing with other people is at the center of
these arguments and overlap in philosophical view is thus inevitable. Rawls insistence that people be a primary consideration in justice and not be considered as a mere means for
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