Plato stated that justice is the quality of soul, in virtue of which men set aside the illogical wishes to experience every pleasure and to get a selfish satisfaction out of every object and accommodate them to the discharge of a single function for the general benefit. (Bhandari 2007) Aristotle refers to justice as giving people what they deserve. For Aristotle, political activity is an essential part of living a good life. (Aristotle, 1920) John Rawls (1921-2002) thinks of justice in terms of fairness. Rawls was a supporter of liberalism, a tradition which has its origins in classical Greece; however Rawls references more recent connections in his work such as Kant’s ethics and social contract theories (Lecture notes 2014). Liberalism can be defined as a man who believes in liberty. Cranston defines liberals have maintained that humans are naturally in a ‘state of perfect freedom to order their actions’ as they feel they should act without influence from anyone else. (Cranston 1975) Rawls opposed utilitarianism. Utilitarianism can be defined as the belief that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority. Utilitarianism was the dominant way to think of ethics in the 1950’s and Rawls opposes it for a number of reasons. He points out that there would be conflicts between utilitarianism and most peoples beliefs about justice and fairness. Rawls thinks there would be a problem applying the utilitarian model to society as it would lead to a society that the minority would suffer greatly which Rawls believes is not a good model for a just society. Another argument Rawls has against utilitarianism is that people in the original position would prefer his principles. He says that people who grew up in a society which was governed by his principles would come to value the principles and try to comply with them. In a society governed by Rawls’s principles of justice, the worst off know that their society is committed to their being as well off as they possible can be. The same cannot be said for a society governed by a utilitarian as they value the majority over the minority. (Social and Political Philosophy, 2006.) Rawls was influenced by the 17th and 18th century work of writers John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant by revising the social contract tradition of theorizing about justice that were associated with those writers. (Arnes