A Theory of Justice (English, Paperback, Rawls John)

“Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as whole cannot override. Therefore in a just society the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests.” THE PRINCIPLES OF justice Rawls set forth in this book are those that free and rational people would accept in an initial position of equality. In this hypothetical situation, which corresponds to the state of nature in social contract theory, no one knows his or her place in society; his or her class position or social status; his or her fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities; his or her intelligence, strength, and the like; or even his or her conception of the good.