The Research Of John Rawls Justice Pirnciples

The published of John Rawls’ a theory of justice in1971caused an earthquake inacademic circles. He brought political philosophy a brand-new appearance and made thesubject of political philosophy converse. Then he published many works like PoliticalLiberalism (1993), and the Law of Peoples (1999), and Lectures on the History of MoralPhilosophy (2000), and Justice as Fairness: a Restatement (2001). His works and a series ofthe published papers formed his justice theory system. The core part of his theory of system isthe two justice principles.Rawls’ two justice principles were proved under the assumptions of original position.People are in the curtain of ignorance, not knowing the identity and status, and in thecomparison of the two justice principles and many other e principles of justice chose this twoprinciple as the rules of the basic structure of society, because of the principles of justice withobvious advantage. When the two principles are actual implemented in the social structure,they can produce themselves and have the ability of self support, so the implemented of themis stable.Rawls’ justice principles in the basic of affirming freedom being preferential, give theweak fully sympathy, and deny the legitimacy of exchanging for the interests of the wholewith minority interests, and finally put the foothold in the appeal of equal.This paper means to start with the theory’s background of Rawls, and look for theformation and development of the two principles of justice, and further dig the connotation ofthe theory value and the practical value, and brief evaluate this theory.Among them the key isthe digging the change of expression and the connotation in Rawls justice principles, and thehighlight is the thinking at the principles’ theory value and practical value. The principles ofjustice were the summarization and innovation in traditional contract theory; they harmonizedthe relationship of equality and freedom, and contest about the democratic rules. Thisprinciple will let economists more a moral value thinking at the same time of calm analysis.Justice principles’ impact on human behavior is not inferior at the theory influence. Rawls’stheory was full of love and care for the weaks, and motivated the whole society to concern to the disadvantaged groups and be keen to charity, and caused people thinking on the fair of thesocial security and education and other public areas.