John Rawls and the Social Contract

An overview of John Rawls and social contract. John Rawls combines the earlier traditional social contract approach with more modern usage to create a chaotic social philosophical renaissance. Professor Rawls is not a reason to advocate civic authority or a form to adopt, but I am more interested in the principle of promoting a basic social system - though it assumes authority, but focuses on animation I am counting on you. In short, Rawls believes that "justice and fairness" should be the basic animation principle.

The social contract theory began as a description of the origins and legitimacy of the country, especially in the works of Hobbes and Rock, but later thinkers like Rousseau, Emmanuel Kant and John Rawls also applied social contract theory. On the international stage (partly explains Grotius's international justice in the "Law of War and Peace"). In these applications, the state replaces citizens as parties to social contracts. The judicial part of social contract theory is based on the international treaties such as "Geneva Convention on Prisoner Handling" (if the country agrees with humanitarian treatment of prisoners) or the right to UN human rights declaration (States promise to realize various human rights) Can be used to review the provisions of the Convention

In 1971, John Rawls promoted social contracts to regain attention by announcing the "justice theory". Later, he extended the model of "justice theory" to the international stage of the People's Law. Rawls uses a social contract model. And that calls him "justice and fairness" in the context of the country and "people's rule" at the international stage. Rawls' statement is purely normative and does not pretend to be an accurate descriptive statement about how each country interacts indeed. He explained his argument as the "ideal theory" of pursuing "realistic utopia."

John Rawls' view of civil disobedience is different from Martin Luther King. He believes democracy is a social contract. He does not believe that people are "groups" with individual identities. In fact, Rawls argues that in democratic society, people who originally signed a social contract did not know their social, economic, or ethnic differences. He called it "pure veil" (Rolls). The primitive principle of these hypotheses agrees with the form of governance that treats everyone equally according to law. Since this contract includes democracy, a constitution is necessary. This includes the legislators who are responsible for making the law. Sometimes the law is unfair. However, as part of social contracts, citizens also signed the profit that democracy provides to them. As a result, citizens must comply with unfair laws