Rawls'sA Theory of Justice

Abstract This chapter is a summary and review of Rawls's book. It offers to identify the fundamental logical flaw at the book's heart: the assumption that if a principle would be rejected by the unbiased persons in the postulated Original Position, it therefore would and should be rejected by reasonable people unconstrained by the systematic ignorance imposed by Rawls on persons in the Original Position to preserve them from bias. It also points to the risk aversion postulated by Rawls.