Sloboda i pravda (Prilog razmatranju teorije pravde Johna Rawlsa)
Freedom and Justice (Towards an Examination of John Rawls' Theory of Justice)

Summary/Abstract: In the liberal tradition the concept of freedom is the basic value of society. Today the central place of freedom is being supplanted by new values, such as justice and equality. Such a turn has been performed by John Rawls in the Theory of Justice Rawls’s theory of justice as equity presupposes a free and rational man who possesses an intuition of the just and accepts the principle of justice. The social ambiance in which his theory is realized includes great social stability and harmony, a high level of material and cultural development, minimal structural changes. This theoretical concept consists of two parts: a theory of an initial state and the basic position of justice as equity. The solution of the relationship between justice and freedom in Rawls, worked out through the two basic principles of justice, can be considered an advance in the solving of this classical question of every political philosophy. Justice is the central value, and freedom is secondary, but through the primacy of the first principle it is protected from the limitations that might be stimulated by other demands and values. John Rawls’s Theory of Justice can be considered to be a modernized, mildly conservative and puritan version of the theory of natural law.

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