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Philosophy and Social JusticeAddress the following in a three-page paper:	Identify some of the features and values you associate with a just society. For example, does it include access to quality education, basic healthcare, and housing? How involved should the national government be with local issues and personal decisions about healthcare and other issues? Is the opportunity for economic equality important regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, and so on?	Present an account of at least one social/political philosophy from the assigned readings with support from the course texts and online lectures that might achieve the values/features you identify. For example, you might discuss classical theories, social contract theory (including Rawls’ veil of ignorance), Marxism, and/or feminist philosophy.	Explain how the theory would achieve the just society you envision.	Make comparisons between the just society you envision and the United States. You may need to do additional research to support the claims you make about social and economic conditions in the U.S.	Identify and explain an additional political theory that would take a different approach.Please follow guideline completely using APA format for assignment and references (please give good references)Reading assignment: CHAPTER 10 From E-bookPHILOSOPHERS AND THINKERS IN THIS CHAPTER			Confucius		¦		551–479 b.c.e.				Plato		¦		428–347 b.c.e.				Aristotle		¦		384–322 b.c.e.				Thomas Hobbes		¦		1588–1679				John Locke		¦		1632–1704				David Hume		¦		1711–1776				Thomas Jefferson		¦		1743–1826				John Stuart Mill		¦		1806–1873				Karl Marx		¦		1818–1883				Friedrich Engels		¦		1820–1895				John Rawls		¦		1921–2002				Susan Moller Okin		¦		1946–2004	10.1 Elements of a Just SocietyImagine that you were given the project of creating a society based on the principle of justice: How would you go about it and how would you justify your proposed state? This is a question to which you may have given some thought during a recent local or national election. Although your political interest and involvement may typically focus on specific social issues—health care, government spending, educational issues, foreign policy—political philosophy requires you to question the system as a whole. Of course, if you emigrated from another country with another political structure, your experiences would give you a very different perspective than those of us who have never lived within another political regime.In designing your ideal “just society,” you will have to grapple with a number of questions that philosophers and others have been struggling with for thousands of years:	•		Questions of justice:		What exactly		is		a “just society”? How can we be fair to all the citizens in terms of distribution of wealth, opportunity, and power (distributive justice)? Should a society treat everyone equally? How should people who have violated society’s laws be treated (retributive justice)? What is the core meaning of the concept of “justice”?Distributive justiceTheory of justice dealing with how society’s wealth, opportunity, and power should be distributed.Retributive justiceTheory of justice dealing with how societies should treat those who violate laws.	•		Questions of law:		What is the justification for a society and its laws? Are there “natural laws” on which “civic laws” should be based? Should citizens be expected to obey a society’s laws even if they believe the laws to be unjust? When is “civil disobedience” justified?	•		Questions of public interest:		Does society have a responsibility to protect and support its less advantaged members? To what extent should individual citizens be expected to sacrifice their individual interests to support the general public interest? To what extent should the state promote the well-being of its citizens through public education, medical services, low-cost housing, welfare support, low-interest loans, and subsidies for businesses? To what extent should the state create and enforce regulations in employee safety, drug and medical safety, ethical practices in business, equal opportunity for citizens?	•		Questions of duty:		For what obligations and duties are the citizens of the state responsible?	•		Questions of rights:		To what individual rights are citizens entitled? In addition to the civil rights of a society, are there basic human rights that citizens of all societies are entitled to?	•		Questions of freedom:		On what basic freedoms is society based? To what individual freedoms should each citizen be entitled? Under what circumstances should personal liberty be limited?	•		Questions of power and influence:		How should power be acquired and administered? In what ways can citizens influence the policies and laws?

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Principles of a just society                                                                                           1 
 
Principles of a just society
A just society is a one where people have all the means and they are motivated 
to participate in the politics and governance of the society. The people of such a 
society have personal and political freedom more ensured and secured than a typical 
society. A just society respects the rights of the minorities and do not get influenced 
on the basis of the demands from the majorities.
The regions and the groups of all the affiliations share the country’s resources 
with equal opportunity and there is no preferential treatment given to any group of the 
people. The just society facilitates the full rights of the citizenship through the policies 
fostering equality and justice among the residents. The just society has all its citizens 
participating in the country’s development and growth.
The above mentioned features of a just society can be fulfilled by loosely following 
the principles of the social contract theory by Thomas Hobbes. According to him, the 
power should be in the hands of absolute sovereign because all human beings are 
capable of reasoning and they can figure out that the only way to grow together is to 
collaborate and co-create the value by working together with each other.
By doing so, they might have to leave a certain degree of autonomy but that will 
create a nonviolent and fruitful atmosphere in which to live. The cooperation among 
the members of the society will also bring into place the law and order system which 
is acceptable by all members of the society.

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