...interrelated from the standpoint of economics. I use "justice" in approximately the sense of John Rawls. "For us the primary subject of justice is the basic...and the principal economic and social arrangements" (A Theory of Justice, 1971, p. 7). This book is not a comprehensive analysis of "the political constitution...

...some difficulties Rawls faces in building a bridge between theory and practice. Rawls specifies that "the primary subject of justice is the basic structure...the division of advantages from social cooperation" (7). The theory of justice, in turn, has two parts: The first or ideal part . . . develops the conception...

...embedded in what he calls the basic structure of society. He writes as follows in A Theory of Justice: For us the primary subject of justice is the basic...and the principal economic and social arrangements. Thus the legal protection of freedom of thought and liberty of conscience, competitive markets, private...

...might involve. I Justice, Rawls says, is the first virtue of social institutions. Its "primary subject" is "the basic structure of society, or more exactly,...the division of advantages from social cooperation" (7). The central problem for a theory of justice is to identify principles by which the basic structure...

...consider the level of abstraction at which the theory is formulated. Rawls proposes to address only the basic structure of society, or more exactly, the...and duties and determine the division of advantages 8 1 have tried to deal with the other questions in 'Welfare Rights' — from which the present essay...

...which Rawls uses the term. \nA Theory of Justice the basic structure of a social system is defined as "the way in which the major social institutions distribute...the division of advantages from social cooperation" (TJ 7). Social institutions are a species of social practices and thus are in some ways analogous to...

...framework serves to guide the assessment and restructuring of the "basic structure" of society, that is, "the way in which the major social institutions distribute...and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation."17 These institutions — including the constitution, the legal system, property, economic...

...specific. Rawls's, by contrast, is extremely general. "The primary subject of justice," writes Rawls, "is the basic structure of society, or more exactly,...and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation."14 If the Heinz dilemma is paradigmatic for Kohlberg, the paradigms for Rawls are questions...

...defending what John Rawls has called the "basic structure of society." By basic structure Rawls means "the way in which the major social institutions distribute...the division of advantages from social cooperation." Rawls goes on to define major social institutions as "the political constitution and the principal...

...the "basic structure of society" is the primary subject of justice. By "basic structure," he means "the way in which the major social institutions distribute...and the principal economic and social arrangements." Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 7. 18 Treatise of Human Nature, III, II, I; in Aiken, Hume's Moral and...