ABSTRACT
John Rawls’ theory of justice is primarily a theory of political justice which applies to the system of society as a whole. His key notion of justice as fairness seems to imply a wider range of application, as indicated in his wish to study rightness as fairness in regard to interpersonal relationships.1 We may infer from this that fairness could apply equally to a whole system and to individual persons, and thus in this sense we can speak of both just society and just persons. But the real question is whether a just society must imply the existence of just persons. It might be suggested that a just society must have some just persons so that it could be called just, in the same way a just person must perform some just actions so that he could be called a just person. We may agree to such a suggestion and yet we are unclear how a just society must produce just persons, or just citizens for that matter.
