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John Rawls: Justice as Fairness

What can we do?

What do we have ?

Why is it so hard to change?

What would we want?

  • Be aware
  • Stay positive
  • Affect Change
  • Good schools
  • Access to medical care
  • Fair access to the law and representative government
  • Adequate housing for all.

Political Theory

  • Rawls was accutely aware of the social injustices faced by a large majority of people.
  • He wanted to find a way to get more people to understand this vast unfairness so he created what he called the "Veil of ignorance."

Academics

Military Service

  • Served in WWII
  • Witnessed "Horrors of War"
  • Demoted for refusing to punish a subordinate because he didn't feel it was just.
  • Attened Princeton in 1946
  • Earned Phd in 1950
  • Attended oxford in 1952
  • In 1962 he returned to the US and quickly became a professor at Harvard where he taught for nearly 40 years

Early Life

  • Born in Baltimore in 1921
  • Brothers died at an early age
  • Witnessed social injustice
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