This book promotes the adoption of a "maximin" strategy in order to obtain the most good for the least advantaged members of society.
One section of this work asserts that rational persons are motivated by a plan for life that does not disregard the future. It outlines the three conditions necessary to vindicate civil disobedience in the section "Duty and Obligation". This book promotes the adoption of a "maximin" strategy in order to obtain the most good for the least advantaged members of society. This book rejects Hobbes' brutal "state of nature" in a thought experiment that posits an "original position" that one could attain behind a "veil of ignorance". For 10 points, name this work of political philosophy by John Rawls.
One section of this work asserts that rational persons are motivated by a plan for life that does not disregard the future.
A {Theory} of {Justice}