John Rawls 'Justice As Fairness'

Chapter One: Ideas that Shape American Politics 1. There are three forms of equality (social, political, and economic), define each. Which is most important in our modern democracy?  Social equality refers to all individuals enjoying the same status in the society. Political equality means all citizens having the same political rights and opportunities.

Rawls himself talks about justice as free and equal persons cooperating and agreeing to certain terms in fair conditions, hence the term “justice as fairness” . This notion revolves around the allocation of goods in society. Immanuel Kant is a theorists whom Rawls would’ve been inspired by, particularly when evaluating political and social institutions . Rawls argues individuals would support the notion of distributive justice concerning the equal distribution of goods if it involved elements of fairness and neutrality. In other words, if every individual was equal from when they were brought into the world they would vow for an equal distribution of goods.

Instead of dealing with that pain, they cultivated a seemingly perfect facade and a seemingly perfect society. The problem with this is, nobody is flawless, even the protagonist of the novel. To make this society perfect, the weight of every struggle in the history of mankind was put on Jonas’s shoulders. But, the only thing that resulted from this was anarchy. From this I learned that although perfection is desirable, it is not attainable.

What is the “Due Process?” The due process is a fair Treatment through the normal Judicial system, especially as a citizen’s entitlement It respect all legal rights that are balances the power of law of land and protects the individual person. What does it do? The due process deals with the administration of justice and thus the due process clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary of life, liberty or property by the government outside the sanction of law. One of the pros of the Due process is that accused gets to enjoy all Constitutional protections of law and the entire process is fair and well balanced. However the con is that it takes the time, hardship on the victims and their families in having to be at every hearing.

They want just use people for their benefits. Secondly, the rule of law is basically equality between all individuals in each society. Also, it is the principle that every person in society is equal, and has all rights before the law. In those societies that ruled by law, people have opportunity to ask for their right whatever any right violations happen. On the other hand, the lack of rule of law is the major cause for having war and poverty in each society.

Essay 1 Aristotle and John Locke both believe humans were not created to live alone but instead among other people of the same community. Humans are not independent beings, and those who live in isolation lack the purpose of life: becoming a citizen and exercising one 's full potential of human flourishing. According to Aristotle, the collective community or multitude of citizens coexisting with one another is happiness, whereas Locke believes that the collective community is protecting autonomy and property. Both philosophers believe that to become a citizen, one must contribute to politics with the intent of creating a better society for all. Aristotle and Locke however, have differing views on how a person accomplishes this.

First of all, differences. Modern day rights and laws try to focus on equality and freedom between all humans regardless of their differences, as seen in articles 1 “We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way.” and 7 “The law is the same for everyone. It must treat us all fairly.” of the Universal Declaration of Humans Rights.

The author writes about how Jonas’ perfect society is not so perfect after all. There is no troubles, pain and inequality but there is also no love, choice or individuality. Everyone is the exact same person. People need there differences to be who they are, otherwise what is the point in living if it means nothing special? Although an utopian society seems perfect with equality and peace, everything has its faults even in if considered perfect such as loss of individuality and choice as in societal ideas like birthday celebrations, being assigned a family and having others choose your time of death.

Well not in Harrison Bergeron. In Harrison Bergeron, they bring out their flaws and hide their perfections, so that everyone is all equal and nobody is better or treated any better than anyone else. Whenever Harrison decides to cherish his perfections, things don't go well or expected for him. It's illegal so, nobody may be unique. And the decisions he made were very unique and bold, and that's not how it flows in his time or place.

Furthermore, he believed that we all have the right to protect our God-given rights and not harm others regarding their life, health, liberty, and possessions. Although Locke believed people are moral, he did acknowledge the fact there are is a small percentage of people who aren’t. Therefore, he emphasized the importance of having a democratically governed society in order to enforce rules, promote security, and preserve property. He thought the best way to solve social conflicts was for each individual in a society to come together and come to an agreement to live under one government that enforces laws for the greater

In Anthem, the society is one in which everyone is equal and no one is superior to anyone else. However, society comes with a price as no one is able to think or speak for themselves. When Equality 7­2521 realizes that he can think and speak for himself in his “new world” then his new reality stems from

Michael Walzer talks about justice as being equal to everyone. Nobody should be above the law, regardless of their social status, etc. On a perfect world, our justice system would be equally accessible and implemented regardless of who is the accused. Everyone has the same rights. On the other hand, Kenji Yoshiko believes justice is not something you can measure.