I think a society based on Rawls would be more just than one based on Young’s theory, mostly because I don’t like anything Young has presented. I’ll first go over arguments presented by Rawls, then Young, about what makes a society just. Second will be...
Philosophy and Justice For many centuries mankind has put forth their ideas of what a just society would look like. There is a lot that goes with the question what makes a just society. Can a democracy have a just society. Can a communist nation...
In a just and fair society there ought to be systems in place that allow for its citizens to express their true nature. A specific example of this natural expression is gender. People should not be confined to one definition of sexuality or their gender....
Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy. The word originally meant leaderlessness, but in 1840 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon adopted the term in his treatise “What Is Property?” to refer to a new political philosophy: anarchism,...
What kind of world would you formulate if you were conscious before you were born, but you didn’t know the circumstances you would be born into? Philosopher John Rawls uses this thought experiment to argue for the moral responsibility of creating a just world. He...
