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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement John Rawls
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. (Justice as Fairness: A Briefer Restatement, 114). It is even more important to consider each “distributive” passage in context – to .. Rawls's Theory of Distributive Justice: Justice as Fairness. While the scriptures have plenty to say about justice, it is important to distinguish passages concerning the “outcome fairness” required by distributive justice from passages involving the “procedural fairness” required by a society's economic or remedial justice systems. Discussions of Let's take a quick look at four rivals to Justice as Fairness: (1) utilitarianism, (2) egalitarianism (or "strict equality"), (3) desert, and (4) libertarianism. In Justice as Fairness, Rawls asserts that the basic or fundamental rights of “conscience and freedom of association, freedom of speech (my emphasis) and liberty of the person, the rights to vote, to hold public office, to be treated in accordance with the rule of law, and so on,” should be equal to all” as a matter of justice. A thorough and intellectually sophisticated argument for a notion of justice based on what reasonable people would supposedly agree to given equal bargaining positions. Otherwise, unequal rights and liberties undermine democratic Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Wilkinson is correct that Rawls excludes “the right to private property in natural resources and means of production” from protection under the first principle. In 2001 John Rawls published a little book called The Law of Peoples, that was originally supposed to be a chapter for Justice as Fairness: a Restatement, a revision and re-organization of his theory. (1st edition) Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 2001.