John Rawls | Justice as Fairness

John Rawls | Justice as Fairness
Rawls builds his theory of justice on the social contract model of earlier philosophers. Two principles of justice addressing equal liberties of citizenship and social and economic equalities, if chosen behind a "veil of ignorance," would lead to a just society. Rawls defines and describes each principle and explains how they work together. In other words, a departure from the first could not be compensated for by an increase based on the second.
-For Rawls, the principles of justice are fundamental elements of the ___________ agreed upon by those in an initial position of equality.

A) state of nature
B) social contract
C) primitive condition of culture
D) economic inequality