Rawls opens The Role of Justice with a strong analogy which turns the brain on, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. Rawls also gives us the definition we were looking for, the role of justice itself is to insure that the distribution of benefits and burdens is fair.
Just is a key center point in a society. Without justice in a society, the society would be ruined. Each person born into a society possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society cannot override. …
