PART A
The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your belief about how our society should be structured to achieve justice. In 1-2 pages, write a letter to one of your elected officials in which you identify an unjust circumstance in your community and advise your representative as to how it might be remedied. Include the following in your letter:
- Identify and explain the injustice in your community.
- Discuss your proposed solution.
- Explain at least one social philosophy from Chapter 9 in the textbook that supports your solution.
Submission Detail
- Remember to use supporting citations from the textbook and lectures in correct APA citation.
PART B
Imagine that you have been given a piece of sovereign land upon which to build a just society. In a 3-4-page paper, discuss the following:
- Identify and explain your definition of justice.
- Identify and discuss the social philosophy/philosophies that are similar to your own vision of justice. For example, you might draw upon Rawls’ idea that justice is fairness and original position and discuss how reflecting upon the original position influenced the structure of your new society. Alternatively, you might explain intersectionality and discuss how your society will ensure that discrimination on the basis of identities like race, class, gender, and sexuality will not occur.
- Identify and discuss a contrasting theory.
- Support your account of the theories with citations to the textbook and online lectures in correct APA format.
