JUSTICE IN JOHN RAWLS VIS-À-VIS NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY
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- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
History indicates that right from the ancient times to the contemporary period, justice has been regarded as one of the cardinal virtues which man as a political animal makes quixotic effort to establish in the society he lives. Thus, justice is the ultimate goal of political life, but experience has shown us that it is injustice that dominates political debate. The reason is that it is easier to identify and deplore injustice than define precisely what is lacking in an unjust political society or what an ideally just political society might be like. This however, is the kind of predicament John Rawls sees in modern period, where moral thought and the means of assessing moral behaviour are dominated by utilitarianism. Those who set out, according to him to criticize it often did so, on much narrower front. They pointed out the obscurities of the principle of utility and noted apparent incongruities between many of its implications and our moral sentiments. But they failed to construct a workable and systematic moral conception of justice to oppose it. In reacting to this, Rawls had to develop the concept of justice in which he wanted to work out certain principles that will provide a reasonably systematic alternative to utilitarian conception of justice. The principles he developed dwell strongly on the constant way of equal distribution of wealth and division of benefits and burdens resulting from social cooperation in well-ordered society. Similarly, in Nigerian democratic government today, I think it could be an obligation if not indispensable task to seek social justice, where the political elites in the country have completely lost the sense of justice in piloting public affairs and engaged constantly in violation of human rights and injustice.
And to do that however, the Rawlsian concept of social justice should be our stepping stone through which we shall endeavor to restore justice economically, socially and politically in Nigeria.
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