CONCEPT OF JUSTICE AS IMPARTIALITY BY JOHN RAWLS
Keywords:
justice, fairness, distributive justice, law, liberty, equality, the veil of ignorance, rationalityAbstract
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls belongs to the group of the most influential theories generated in the period after the Second World War. For more than forty years legal issue analysts from different viewpoints have dedicated their work to the review of Rawls's work about justice but also the concept which appeared in the later period of his creative work. This text analyzes the key idea of Rawls's theory of justice as fairness. The issues of freedom and equality stem from some attempts to reconcile the classical liberal with social-democratic point of view. Today's neo-liberally established societies,legal systems, political structures, cultural models and economic systems have proved his conclusions to be right. This fact best solves the dilemma of the relationship between Rawls's views and real life. The technique called veil of ignorance as well as the two principles of this technique served Rawls as a rational theoretical framework of a well-ordered society that operates on the basis of the possible. The author of this work has made an effort to analyze the most important ideas of Rawls's theory of justice using a holistic approach through all central elements of this theory: from its theoretical roots, the fundamental attitudes to their value in today's circumstances.
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