Talk:Justice as Fairness
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"and to the greatest benefit of the least well-off members of society."
That is not quite right: his idea is that everyone is free to do as they wish toward improving their own position provided this does not make the least well-off any worse off. Pepper 150.203.227.130 12:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
"those who have be favored by nature, whoever they are, may gain from their good fortune only on terms that improve the situation who have lost out" i believe that while it is maybe not completely correctly worded, the idea of the most benefit to the least advantaged is correct. Keakster 09:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Keakster is correct. It literally says "... They are to be to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society." I don't know how to add the reference, but I'll type it here in the hopes that someone else may do it. (It seems like the content of the whole Justice as Fairness -article is from pages 5-6 in Rawls, J. (1993). Political Liberalism, New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-05248-0 Toni K
