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A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 1971
Pages
Pages 600

Imagine you must write the rules of a society before you are told who in it you will be: rich or poor, quick-minded or slow, of the settled majority or the hunted minority. What would you dare permit?

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
A Theory of Justice, John Rawls

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