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Rawls' Theory of Justice

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What's the Difference Between Justice and Fairness?

John Rawls' thought experiment was to imagine how you would design society if your enemy was going to assign you a place in it. He said we shouldn't reason from false premises, but this is just a type of heuristic. In many languages, there actually isn't a distinction between justice and fairness. So the idea of procedural justice is an essential contribution of Rawls.

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