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How has Rawls enriched the idea of justice in liberalism?

  • UPSC 2021
  • 20 marks
  • Justice

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Before John Rawls, liberalism had a theory of liberty and a working method, utilitarianism, but no developed theory of justice. A Theory of Justice (1971), which calls justice "the first virtue of social institutions," supplied one, reconciling liberty with equality. The enrichment shows best when set against the liberalism it replaced.

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  • Liberalism before and after Rawls
  • A new method: the contract revived
  • The principles and their currency
  • Later enrichments
  • Limits
  • Indian anchor
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