RAWLS'S CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC JUSTIFICATION AND THE IDEAL STATES SYSTEM

ABSTRACT. Rawls notes that outlaw states are aggressive and dangerous. Naticchia notes that Rawls produced two versions of the law of peoples that defend basic human rights as a minimum requirement of a just law of peoples. Rawls restricts membership of the original position to compatriots so that the scope of the chosen difference principle is limited to domestic society (Kamminga).