Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- 70 Facts, general (in OP argument and as part of justiication)
- 71 Fair equality of opportunity
- 72 Fairness, principle of
- 73 Faith
- 74 Family
- 75 Feminism
- 76 Formal justice
- 77 The four-stage sequence
- 78 Freedom
- 79 Freedom of speech
- 80 Freeman, Samuel
- 81 Fundamental ideas (in justice as fairness)
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
81 - Fundamental ideas (in justice as fairness)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations for Rawls’s texts
- Introduction
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- 70 Facts, general (in OP argument and as part of justiication)
- 71 Fair equality of opportunity
- 72 Fairness, principle of
- 73 Faith
- 74 Family
- 75 Feminism
- 76 Formal justice
- 77 The four-stage sequence
- 78 Freedom
- 79 Freedom of speech
- 80 Freeman, Samuel
- 81 Fundamental ideas (in justice as fairness)
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Justice as fairness involves six fundamental ideas. They are laid out in a sequence in Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (part i; see also PL lecture 1). The irst is the organizing idea, which the following ive make more determinate by addressing important questions (JF 24–25). The ideas are worked out on the basis of a relection on aspects of the public political culture of a democratic society (JF 5).
(1) The central, organizing idea is that of society as a fair system of cooperation over time from one generation to the next. Social cooperation has at least three features: it is guided by publicly recognized rules and procedures, it includes terms of cooperation that are fair (they can reasonably be accepted by its participants and involve reciprocity or mutuality), and it tracks each participant’s rational advantage or good (JF 6). The terms of social cooperation (the fundamental rights, liberties, opportunities, and allocation of benefits and burdens it involves) are speciied by the principles of justice (JF 7).
(2) What would result when the irst idea is fully realized? The result would be a well-ordered society, a society effectively regulated by the principles of justice (JF 8–9).
(3) What do the principles of justice apply to, exactly? They apply primarily to the basic structure of society, to “the way in which the main political and social institutions of society it together into one system of social cooperation, and the way they assign basic rights and duties and regulate the division of advantages that arises from social cooperation over time” (JF 10). The basic structure includes, for example, a society’s constitution, its economic structure, and the family in some form.
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- The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon , pp. 306 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014