Four Theories Of Justice Course Analysis

Throughout this course we have read about many different philosophers and their theories of justice. Utilitarianism, libertarianism, rawlsianism, and Sandal’s virtue of ethics are the main four theories of justice that we examined and compared to everyday life this course. Every single person has their own theory of justice and because of that; each of these theories have their positive aspects and each of them have their negative aspects or problems. After learning about the four different theories I have put some ideas together to create a theory of my own from the theories I learned. The first theory that we learned about in this course was utilitarianism. The way that I understood utilitarianism is that the right thing to do is the thing

According to the novel libertarianism is the right to do whatever they want with the things that they own, providing that they respect each other’s rights to do the exact same. The example, that really stayed with me after reading was about selling kidneys. The libertarians think that it should be up to the individual because of self-ownership. I agree with this because it is up to someone if they are in desperate need of money to sell a body part that they can live without. One of the positive aspects about the libertarian theory is that it allows people to do what they want with the things that they own. I think a problem comes in is when people start doing things that they want they truly effect and harm themselves or others. That is what libertarianism is and the positive aspect and negative aspect of their

I personally would take the part of the libertarian theory and the first principle of rawlsianism. I think by having the libertarian theory of people being able to do what they want with what they own as long as it does not interfere with others rights and the rawlsianism theory of all citizens’ equal liberties is a good design for the laws of the government. Of course with every theory there is a weakness, and for this one I think it would be that the people would try and push the limits with the part of equal liberties. But with every weakness there is a way to overcome it. I think by setting a strict penalty for overstepping the limits would show people not to push the