Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement



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Page: 240
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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ISBN: 0674005112, 9780674005112


Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2000. In Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Rawls evaluates five types of regimes. Perhaps the most telling point for the outcome of Rawl's “practical utopia” is found in 2001 book “Justice as Fairness: A Restatement” 18.3, p.64, he allows for the possibility where real capital accumulation stops, i.e. He concludes that that only two of these five regimes could, in principle, realize justice. Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy. Otherwise, unequal rights and liberties undermine democratic Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. In Justice as Fairness, Rawls asserts that the basic or fundamental rights of “conscience and freedom of association, freedom of speech (my emphasis) and liberty of the person, the rights to vote, to hold public office, to be treated in accordance with the rule of law, and so on,” should be equal to all” as a matter of justice. The point of including the discussion of the lexical priority of the principles is made clearer by Rawls in his late piece Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. In Justice as Fairness: a Restatement, Rawls argues that extreme inequalities undermine a democracy by undoing any serious conception of equal citizenship.