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The Idea of Justice as fairness in Rawlsian theory flows from

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    Justice as fairness refers to the conception of justice that John Rawls presents in A Theory of Justice. This conception of justice concerns society's basic structure-that is, "society's main political, constitutional, social, and economic institutions and how they fit together to form a unified scheme of social cooperation over time."Rawls constructs justice as fairness in a rather narrow framework and explicitly states, "Justice as fairness is not a complete contact theory." Its purpose is to show how we ought to allocate a cooperative surplus of resources to individuals in society. As a result, justice as fairness relies on two implicit assumptions about the societies in question: first, social cooperation is possible and can work to everyone's mutual advantage, and second, there exists a moderate surplus of available resources to be distributed. Justice as fairness cannot be used to determine the just distribution of sacrifices to be made by a society's members when resources are scarce.

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