A Critique of John Rawls Ethical Principle of Justice and the Problems of Social Justice in Modern Society

Abstract

The question of how a satisfactory understanding of political justice can be grounded in modern democratic societies is one that Rawls attempts to address in his work Political Liberalism, published in 1993. Rawls's A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, is regarded as one of the landmarks of political philosophy and offers a new understanding of what and how social organization should be. Individuals or communities will unavoidably adopt different religious, philosophical, and moral doctrines in modern democratic societies where people are viewed as equal and free, according to Rawls, who also contends that the majority of the various moral, philosophical, and religious viewpoints are reasonable and that society accepts the possibility of conflicts.

Keywords: Rawls, Social Cooperation, Injustice, Democratic Societies