ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that why a modified Girardian account of the origin of social justice is better for helping people determine how to best re-conceptualize the social relationships, as well as, how a mimetic theory based on the Modified Weak Alternative (MWA) undermines the notion of fairness that is central to the success of a Rawlsian social contract theory of justice as fairness. It focuses on the veil of ignorance and the original position to show that the individuals Rawls posits could not make the choices he claims they would. Freud's establishment of the primeval father as the ground for the development of social justice is, in essence, a pre-theoretical check on Rawls's construction of justice as fairness. The chapter argues that fairness has been used to mask the reality of social development in a post-mimetic violence society by disguising the importance of inequality in maintaining social order.
