{"id":6,"date":"2007-04-02T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/zhang\/2007\/04\/02\/right-choice\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T03:15:59","slug":"right-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/2007\/04\/02\/right-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Right Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talisse On Rawls<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pg 6<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat is \u2018justice as fairness,\u2019 and why has it stirred so much controversy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pg 19<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOf course, the term \u201cjustice\u201d is used in many different ways; for example, we often hear the word \u201cjust\u201d used to describe entities as diverse as governments, laws, court decisions, and individual actions. However, Rawls is concerned primarily with social justice, the justice of what he calls the \u201cbasic structure\u201d of a society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(.. the primary subject of justice is the basic structure of society, or more exactly, the way in which the major social institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation. From <\/em><em>Theory of Justice )<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pg 24<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026individuals enter into social arrangements for the purpose of attaining benefits unavailable to them singularly; accordingly, a society is a \u201ccooperative venture\u201d aimed at the \u201cmutual advantage\u201d of the individuals that comprise it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the time Rawls wrote A Theory of Justice, the dominant liberal theory of justice was utilitarianism.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talisse On Rawls Pg 6 \u201cWhat is \u2018justice as fairness,\u2019 and why has it stirred so much controversy? Pg 19 \u201cOf course, the term \u201cjustice\u201d is used in many different ways; for example, we often hear the word \u201cjust\u201d used to describe entities as diverse as governments, laws, court decisions, and individual actions. However, Rawls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1405,1404,1114,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairness","category-justice","category-leadership","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/zhang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}