In Steven Lukes’s essay, “On Human Rights”, he discusses an imaginary society run on Rawlsian principles called Egalitaria. He suggests that it suffers from the problem that it “hopes that e

In Steven Lukes’s essay, “On Human Rights”, he discusses an imaginary society run on Rawlsian principles called Egalitaria. He suggests that it suffers from the problem that it “hopes that every can, at least when considering public and political issues, achieve a certain kind of abstraction from their own point of view and circumstances” and that it may not be possible for most people to do this. Explain this objection and consider whether, in our reading by Rawls, “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical”, Rawls provides reasons that constitutes a sufficient answer to this objection.