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Hi, in this resume i ́ll try to cover the following authors: Rawls - Cohen - Nozick y Piketty - David Miller Week 10: Rawls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XXZqh2cJk 📚 Study Notes – John Rawls and the Theory of Justice 1. Who Was John Rawls? ● A 20th-century American philosopher, mainly focused on political philosophy. ● His key work, A Theory of Justice (1971), revived political philosophy, which had been neglected. ● Rawls tried to reconnect philosophy with economic well-being and social justice. 2. Central Question: ● Can we define justice in a culturally diverse and philosophically skeptical world? ● Rawls believed: Yes, through reason and fairness. 3. Core Idea: Justice as Fairness ● Justice must be based on fair principles chosen by free, equal, and rational individuals. ● All social values—freedom, opportunity, income, wealth, and respect—must be distributed equally unless inequality benefits everyone, especially the least advantaged. 4. The Veil of Ignorance (Thought Experiment) ● A hypothetical scenario: you design society without knowing your gender, race, class, intelligence, etc. ● You only know general facts about society (like economics, politics). ● In this "orig...