Ethics and Values / Unit 3 Ethics 136 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Justice as Fairness
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The idea
Rawls's justice as fairness: fair principles for society are the ones parties would choose without knowing their own place in that society.
In practice
Cut-the-cake logic, scaled up: the cutter who doesn't know which slice will be hers cuts fair slices. Rawls builds constitutions the same way.
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