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Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice

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The Importance of Liberty

Rool's theory is that ignorance is a way of modeling impartiality. If you make people ignorant of certain things, they have no choice but to be impartial. Rool says we've got to assume people value what equals the primary goods. The primary goods are liberty, opportunity and social bases of self-respect. They also include money, income and wealth.

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