Abstract

John Rawls offers a political definition of justice in the book “Political Liberalism” and believes that this definition, with the properties that he expresses for that, provides the necessary stability for the theory of justice as fairness. The political definition of justice that sometimes Rawls mentions as “Political justice”, changes the conditions of the “Original Position” that is mentioned in the book “A Theory of Justice” guarantees the stability of justice as fairness, but this action results in some contradictions. By reading Rawls' political justice, this article attempts to study the relationship between “Political justice” and the “Original Position”. The result of this study shows that Rawls' “political justice” have foundations that face the “Original Position” with contradictions, in such a way that the removal of the “Original Position” in “political liberalism” does not produce the problem.