A Critical Analysis Of John Rawls’ Second Principle Of Justice

ABSTRACTJohn Rawls’ “A theory of justice” published in 1971, changed contemporary political theory. In the book, John Rawls presented a reformulation of the social contract theory of John Locke, Jean Jacque Rosseau and Immanuel Kant, providing a justification of the liberal state.According to John Rawls, parties to a contract in an original position would accept two principles of justice to regulate the basic structure of society. The two principles are;1 Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive system of equal liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all.So…