that is the john rawls theory. liberal interpretation of the two principles seeks to mitigate the influence of social contingencies and natural fortune on distributive shares. to accomplish this end, it is necessary to impose further basic structural conditions on the social system. the market arrangement must be set within a framework of political and legal institutions which regulate the overall trends of economic events and preserves the social conditions necessary for opportunity. there is equality of opportunity. the elements are familiar. taxing the rich to help the poor. regulating unfair business. the elements of the framework, to recall the importance -- maintaining equal opportunities of education. education is a big public one. education to be the great equalizer. you have rich and poor and public education is supposed to be giving the same education to everyone and then they can go on and accomplish things. it is not just education for rawls in reading, writing, and arithmetic. chances to acquire cultur

another brilliant thing about john rawls. throughout the study of you know theory, more liberty you get, the more , thellow people to be free less equality you have. impose aore you quality like communism, where everyone makes 10,000 rubles a year, to control that economy where everyone has housing and , you tend toh care restrict a lot of liberties. so these two are often seen as contradictory. so john rawls theory says you can have both. both liberty and equality, if you do it the right way. , for john rawls, allows greater inequality of wealth, helps thestige if it least advantaged. powerful, rich, happy,tial, beautiful, , if youfeel guilty having all of those things are the result of doing such a good job that everyone is doing better. that is the only way that inequality is justified. freedom am in a way, is needed for that. you see how he has reconciled -- two different things freedom, in a way, is needed for that. you see how he has reconciled these two different things. so how can inequality you just be just if the ri

often people who make fun of john rawls will say he is behind the veil of ignorance. -- a veilblinds you you,s you, a veil covers and a veil of ignorance for rawls is to be ignorant or unknowing of one thing. that is, when you design society, you are unknowing or ignorant of where you will end up in that society. very important concept. possibly unrealistic, but a very , that how canept you design a fair society if you know where you are going to end up in it? you know you are middle-class, whatever. society to help the middle class. the importance of the veil of ignorance is to make us of objective, rational, and pure. objectiveair and to -- and objective in designing society, we should not know beforehand where we will end up in that society. that is the veil of ignorance. in other words, when you design society, you do not think about where you are or what you are now. you do not know where you will the society appears, rich or poor, black or white, male, female, young, old. educated, uneducated, healthy, unhealthy, living in the city, the country, living in the north -- you do not

what we would all agree to if we were all as smart at job -- asked john rawls. and we all sat down with him in the faculty lounge. what would we agree to? he said i would not include people like me who have my views , are the ones that would come to a reasonably -- a reasonable agreement pics like that idea that it is just a hypothetical is wrong. there are robust social contracts when you look at the constructs of -- they played an important role in establishing liberty. they came to a public agreement to be governed by certain rules. we have those all around us today. condo associations, they are governed and robustly voluntary. doesn't mean we give away all of our rights. my condo association could not execute me. they can say, you agree to join the condo. it has a limited set of powers that i do think social contracts are still a robust tool for analysis and has significant -- >> i will move on. i will look up social contract on wikipedia. >> my question regards the american revolution and the french militia. what -- what would be a contrast between the amer

sheldon of the university of virginia's college at wise teaches a class on political philosopher john rawls and his 1971 book a theory of justice which has heavily influenced the ideas behind modern american liberalism. when president bill clinton awarded rawls the national humanity medal in 1999, he called him, quote, perhaps the greatest political philosopher of the this class is about 70 minutes. today we're going today we're goingn to look at american liberalism. or, the philosophy behind american liberalism. the political theory justification for liberalism, or the rationale underlining american liberalism. the

rawlings paying tribute to him today. >> let's start with the belief that has become apparent to us all that botham john was exactly thent to have in the city of dallas. >> and here with more on this very bizarre case, cnn's caylee f hartung. >> reporter: dallas police department opened up the investigation and began following protocol for an officer involved shooting. but now the dallas police chief is saying as this investigation that continued, she learned this is a much different and very you unique situation than it initially appeared. she is vowing full transparency. >> right now there are more are questions than we have answers. we understand the concerns of this community and that is why we are working as vigorously and as meticulously as we can to ensure the integrity of this case and that the integrity of the department is upheld. in doing so, we hope to bring understanding and clarity to the family. >> reporter: a blood sample was taken from the officer to test for drugs and alcohol in her system. and the texas rangers have been called in to operate a parallel and independent criminal investigation here. the

investigation.mike rawlings, dallas mayor: "for anyone that questions whether we're going to get to the truth of this, there should be no doubters. we will find out exactly what happened."jean (johnrked at price waterhouse coopers and was a worship leader and a bible study teacher.this weekend, his church paid tribute to him.... as friends and family mourn his loss and await answers. allison jean: victim's mom: "i could not give up because of botham. i'm right now in his death. i can never give up."i'm melisa raney reporting. (jrs) the funeral for botham jean is set for thursday. (justine) north korea held a military parade and civilian rally on sunday celebrating the country'70th anniversary. but, unlike previous years, there were no references to nuclear missiles. the display featured many traditional elements of north korean military parades such as goose-stepping soldiers, but overwhelmingly focused on economic development and improving the lives of north koreans. however u.s. intelligence has stated that they don't believe north korean leader kim jong un intends to fully denuclearize anytime soon. (justine) also today... russian federation officials and a chinese government

investigation.mike rawlings, dallas mayor: "for anyone that questions whether we're going to get to the truth of this, there should be no doubters. we will find out exactly what happened."jean (johnrs and was a worship leader and a bible study teacher.this weekend, his church paid tribute to him.... as friends and family mourn his loss and await answers. allison jean: victim's mom: "i could not give up because of botham. i'm right now in his death. i can never give up."i'm melisa raney reporting. (justine) still ahead tonight -- a family wants to remind drivers to drive carefully tonight. this as a student was almost hit by a car. the video -- when we come back. (j.r.) big sports night in the nfl. former raider khalil mack was in action for the bears. kim smith will show you how he did. sharing a video of a car almost hitting their 7-year- old son in the hope that it will remind people to drive carefully around school buses. it happened in a neighborhood in new hampshire. reporter jessica moran has the the home surveillance video that captures everything. david cota- robles/father: very scary, very scary, it could have been a lot worse, it would have been a lot worse if we had ca