The Concept and Sphere of Liberty from John Rawls’s Point of view

With his Distributive Justice Theory, Rawls, the American philosopher of the 20th century, made a remarkable distinction with other liberalism thinkers that one of those is the difference between his views in liberty issue with other scholars. The main purpose of this article is to explore and to analyze the philosophical concept of liberty in the light of well-organized society of the and the theory of justice. With descriptive-analytical approach at this article, the research is to explain and analyze how Rawls define and demonstrate the scope and territory of liberty in the theory of Justice, and in light of the second principle of justice; “the principle of equality”? The results of the study show that his justice theory has taken away with limitless individualism of liberalism, while it is not joined to the utilitarianism seeking collective benefit. According to Rawls, everyone has the right of equal freedom, allowed to reduce the freedom in case stability of the entire liberty system and then defect which occurs the low-interest individuals in liberty must be compensated otherwise. Fundamental liberties of Rawls is including; freedom of speech, political freedom, freedom of conscience, belief, freedom, private property, prohibition of arbitrary arrest and detention.