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A Theory of Justice

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A Theory of Justice

By John Rawls

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

1)    Carefully explain Rawls’s conception of the original position.

The original position means that justice depends on the primitive condition of the country. This also means that the person does not know his status, place in the society and etc. which strengthen the word justice. This wants to ensure that there is no one who has advantage on someone else and disadvantage because of his status. The understanding of original position is about fairness that each and every one should have if there is justice.

2)    State and explain Rawls’s first principle of justice.

The first principle states that “Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.” Based on the definition, the first principle wants to say that there each and every one should be equal to one another and all the people have the right to be heard by all people. Thus, no matter what is your status in life, you are given a chance to be heard in the court for your testimony.

3)    State and explain the second principle. Which principle has priority such that it cannot be sacrificed?

The second principle states that “Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both reasonably expected to be to everyone’s advantage, and attached to position and offices open to all.”. The second principle is said to apply to the first principle because of the distribution of income and wealth that makes us different among the rest of the people. It is also said that everyone’s income is not need to be equal, but justices must or should be accessible to all the people. The principle that has priority is the first principle since according to this chapter that the principles of justice’s ordering is based on the priority level since the equality of rights is the first principle, I can say that it should not be sacrificed. The distribution of wealth should be the same with the equal opportunity of one another.

 

DISCUSSION QUESTION:

1) On the first principle, each person has an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty as long as this does not interfere with a similar liberty for others. What does this allow to do? Does it mean, for example, that people have a right to engage in homosexual?

The first principle allows the people to have basic equal basic rights. Thus, we should have equal opportunity same with other people. When it comes to gender issues, I think there is not much problem especially in this 20th century, when all things are allowed. I believed that each of us should be given rights or opportunities. They should have a right to engage in homosexual even though we are catholic, still there should be equality. We should allow this because there are also human. We should let homosexuals to do what they would like to do as long as it is still not hindering human and moral rights.

 

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