Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (1921 - 2002) which has been called the most influential book in twentieth century political philosophy. It was first published in 1971. Rawls drew on his own experience in WW2 and saw the chance in its aftermath to build a new society, one founded on personal liberty and fair equality of opportunity. While in that just society there could be inequalities, Rawls’ radical idea was that those inequalities must be to the greatest advantage not to the richest but to the worst off. With Fabienne Peter Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick Martin O’Neill Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of York And Jonathan Wolff The Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and Fellow of Wolfson College Producer: Simon Tillotson In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production
My name is Annie McManus.
And my name is Nick Grimshaw.
How long have we known each other, babe?
Probably 20 years now.
And in that time, we've always worked in and around music, right?
We have.
So it kind of makes sense that.
We do a podcast about it.
Sounds like he's been 20 years in the making.
It's not avatar for podcasts, basically, but it is good.
So we put the world to rights.
With regards to music.
It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.
Sidetracked with us, Annie and Nick.
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