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Justice as Fairness: A Restatement John Rawls
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition–justice as fairness–and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the 19th century. (Rawls himself worried about this. At the time slightly more faithfully (still: to understand Rawls' later work, one needs to read his Political Liberalism (John Dewey Essays in Philosophy) and, perhaps, also his (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement). It is understood that in light of the numerous philosophical criticisms, Rawls has made significant and substantial modifications to his theory, brought out in 'Justice of Fairness: A Restatement''. Scanlon TM: Rawls on Justification. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. John Rawls's Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black, Cain and Hopkins's British Imperialism 1914-1990: Crisis and Deconstruction. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press; 2003:139-167. This not so sad idea can be found in John Rawls's “Justice as Fairness: a Restatement” with an explanation (not all that easy to follow) of why Nozick's idea is so sad. The essay begins with an explanation of the key concepts such as the 'basic structure' and the 'veil of ignorance' in Justice As Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls. In The Cambridge Companion to Rawls.