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Rawls' Theory of Justice

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

The Original Position

Fabian Pitek: The original position is one of the many long-lasting ideas that we find in the theory of justice. It's a thought experiment that helps us to illustrate the social contract approach to thinking about a just society. He thinks economically it's a feasible idea for as much as I know about it. Politically, it hasn't got a chance because our system allows wealthy people to spend a lot of money getting elected.

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