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.
-Rawls states that it is ___________ if a few have greater benefits as long as the lives of the less fortunate are improved as well.

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Rawls' difference principle allows for inequalities if they benefit the least advantaged in society, making it "not unjust" if a few have greater benefits as long as the less fortunate are also improved.