3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
John Rawls's 1971 masterwork — arguing that just institutions are those principles we would choose behind a 'veil of ignorance' (not knowing our position in society) — that rational choosers would select two principles: equal basic liberties for all, and inequalities only if they benefit the least advantaged (the difference principle).
American philosopher at Harvard — author of A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism — who revived Anglo-American political philosophy and provided the most influential liberal theory of justice in the 20th century.
Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — narrated by Scout Finch — following her father Atticus's defense of a Black man falsely accused of rape in 1930s Alabama — the most widely read American novel about racial injustice.