Rawls revision worksheet

Complete this, and submit it by the end of 0th week TT10. It is perfectly acceptable for you to work with others to do
the research and complete the sheets; but make sure you work out your own independent account of the concepts and
theories.
John Rawls:

A Theory of Justice, revised edition, OUP 1999 (first edn 1971)

Political Liberalism, Columbia University Press 1993
Collected Papers Samuel Freeman ed, Harvard University Press 2001

For each of the following try to give, in about 250 words,

a) an analytic account of Rawls concept(s) and
b) an account of what place the concept has in Rawls wider theory of justice.
1.

The veil of ignorance

2.

The basic structure of society

3.

Right, as opposed to good

4.

An overlapping consensus

5.

Reasonable, as opposed to rational

6.

A public reason

7.

The sense of justice

8.

Political, as opposed to metaphysical