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A 5 page essay that offers an examination of Political Liberalism by John Rawls, focusing on how Rawls views the features required for a sustainable political system. No additional sources cited.
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topic in his text Political Liberalism, which was first published in 1993. The following examination of this text focuses on how Rawls views the features required for a sustainable political
system. According to Rawls, there are three basic concepts undergirding any democratic society. The first of these is the concept of society as a "fair system of cooperation over
time, from one generation to the next" (Rawls 14). This idea is related to the next two basic concepts, which are (1) the concept of each citizen being free and
equal to every other citizen; and (2), the idea that a "well-order society is a society effectively regulated by a political conception of justice" (Rawls 14). These grounding principles of
justice are explicitly stated by Rawls in the following manner: * Each person has an equal claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic rights and liberties, which
scheme is compatible with the same scheme for all; and in this scheme the equal basic liberties, and only those liberties, are to be guaranteed their fair value. * Social
and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: first, they are to be attached to positions and offices open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second,
they are to be to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society (Rawls 5-6). Rawls points out that within any free society, citizens will express
differing views on the variety of issues that confront their daily lives. They will have differing ideas of what is right and wrong; believe in different religions (or none at
all); and form differing types of interpersonal relationships. Nevertheless, despite this diversity, there can be only one law, one legal standard that applies to all. Controversial issues such as abortion
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