ABSTRACT
John Rawls was an American moral and political philosopher. His Theory of Justice, coupled with his later corpus and the work of most of his acolytes, exemplifies these problems. Rawls argues that the health and stability of a modern democracy depends on the justice of its basic structure and thus that the basic structure of society is the primary subject of a theory of justice. Rawl's approach eviscerates both the concept of justice and understanding of politics. If justice is used in the third sense stipulated. Then of course it comes as no surprise that all politics is about justice. It is no surprise because it is a tautology. Some have gone about clarifying this by removing all of the evaluative, historical and political mess that always surrounds these matters and focused in on immutable, fixed, even transcendental accounts of justice.
