![]() ![]() In order to interpret those principles, two priority rules need to be applied: ![]() (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged (b) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.īy “fair equality of opportunity” it is meant that “those who are at the same level of talent and ability, and have the same willingness to use them, should have the same prospects of success regardless of their initial place in the social system.” (p. P2: Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: P1: Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. Moreover, he argues that this choice has a definite unique answer the principles chosen would be (p. For Rawls, social justice refers to the basic principles that organize a society these principles are just if they would be hypothetically chosen by the members of that society when they started from an initial position of equality and ignorance of their particular situation, interests and abilities (the original position). In this book, John Rawls articulates an understanding of social justice. ![]()
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