Philosophy 1020 Lecture 17: Nov 4th Rawls .docx
9 Feb 2015
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It"s the most important thing, to which you organize the system: also implies that its something that you cant really trade things against, society is a cooperative venture for mutual advantage, typically marked by conflict as well as by an identity of intrests, , says society is something we get together and create due to mutual advantage, society is not a thing in which one is born, its an arrangement, a cooporatve arrangement. If it"s not a mutual advantage, theres a problem some people may be more advantagoues than others which leaves room for conflict: there needs to be laws that doesn"t create conflict, the primary subject of social justice is the basic structure of society: the way in which the major social institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantage from social cooperation, parliament but also things like the family and the market (institutions)
