Course 9 of 18
Justice Now
Apply ethics to society: fairness, liberty, and obligation.
What this course covers
Justice Now works through apply ethics to society: fairness, liberty, and obligation. across 3 lessons. Each opens with a short teaching passage, then tests whether the idea actually landed — and explains every answer rather than just marking it.
The lessons are sequenced, not a menu. Designing a Fair Society comes first because rawls, Nozick, and the shape of justice is what the rest of the course assumes; by the end you reach What We Owe Each Other.
How it starts
John Rawls asked: what rules would you choose for society if you didn't know who you'd be in it: rich or poor, healthy or sick? From behind this 'veil of ignorance' in the 'original position,' he argued we'd pick principles that protect the worst-off. Robert Nozick pushed back, arguing that justice is about how holdings are acquired and transferred, not about engineering a fair distribution.
“Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.”