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Hello, A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

has been called the Most Influential Book

in 20th Century Political Philosophy.

Rawls, 1921 to 2002, drew in his own experience

in World War II and saw the chance in its aftermath

to build a new society founded on personal liberty

and fair equality of opportunity.

And while in that just society that could be inequalities,

Rawls' radical idea was that those inequalities

must be of the greatest advantage, not to the richest,

but to the worst off.

When me to discuss Rawls' theory of justice

are Fabian Peter, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick,

Martin O'Neill, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of York,

and Jonathan Wolf, the Alfred Lannlicher Professor of Values and Public Policy

at the Barbatnik School of Government, University of Oxford,

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