He’s been referred to as the most important ethics and political philosopher of the 20 th century. It is further found that the EP approach has important implications for public policy. Rawls is recognized as an American moral and political philosopher, and he authored A Theory of Justice in 1971, Political Liberalism in 1993, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement in 2002, among other books. It is also noted that the EP approach offers some insights that are lacking in justice as fairness but are in fact supportive of some of its conclusions and arguments. This understanding is thereafter related to the Rawlsian narrative and its critiques in a discussion which indicates divergences but also congruencies between the two approaches. This leads to an understanding of the basic intuitive grasp of the idea of justice and its role in human evolutionary history, which is then formulated in two principles of social justice. Then an approach to that question is developed, based on an evolutionary psychology (EP) understanding wherein knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are used in research on the structure of the human mind. I briefly restate the structure and essential elements of Rawls’s theory of justice to facilitate an understanding of its basic narrative, before examining a few of the critiques of his approach to the question of social justice.
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