Aristotle Vs Rawl

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Aristotle claims that one can acts unjustly without being unjust while Rawl proposes a general theory of justice that the idea of justice is accepted by "free and equal persons" as far as circumstances are fair. Similar to Aristotle, Professor Morson claims that moral sensitivity is necessary for determining whether each case is justified or not, using Anna Karenina's excerpts for illustration.

Rawl's theory of justice is oversimplified and not applicable to real-life situations due to its original assumption of "justice is accepted through social contracts from the origin position." As the assumption infers that the ideology of justice is shared and remains rather fixed for everyone in the society, the entire theory is abstract in a sense.
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