John Rawls, 1921-2002

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John Rawls, 1921-2002
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• Who?
• GETTING TO THE ASSIGNED ARTICLE A THEORY OF
  JUSTICE (1971)HOW WERE PEOPLE THINKG ABOUT
  ETHICS AND JUSTICE?
• Utilitarian
• Intuitionism

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• Is there a decision procedure that leads to our
  intuitions?
• What qualities must a population have?
• What would they choose?
• TWO PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE
• Equal right to equal liberty
• Inequalities work out to advantage of worst off
• Pareto Optimality
• Objection

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• Counter to Objection
• VEIL OF IGNORANCE
• DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE
• In addition
• Life Plan
• Primary goods

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• JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS
• constitutional democracy
• what has history given us?
• What is politics and justice about?
• Justice and historical contingency
• Who is a citizen
• conception of the good
• Author of their own claims
• Responsibility
• Autonomy?