Anti Perfectionism in Polit Theory, Embraced by Rols

He thinks that we would choose two basic principles, and then all our civil liberties and ideas about how government should be organized will be based on these principles. One is that we should all have the maximum liberty consistent with a like liberty for all. The other is that inequalities in society are tolerable only to the extent that his efforts to eradicate those inequalities or ameliorate them would actually hurt the worst off people in society. But he's certainly right that whatever principles would be chosen in the artificial conditions of the original position would be fair in ta sense that they wouldn't be unfair.

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