Abstract
Nigeria as a country is characterised by a lopsided federal structure, and regionally based party – politics, plus other primordial sentiments of ethnic and religion that stand to hurt the existence of a just society. These foundational challenges make the possibility of an egalitarian community such that is capable of ensuring Nigeria’s political and socio-economic development doubtful. Hence, this study undertakes a critical examination of Rawls’ theory of Justice employing its assumptions to mirror Nigeria’s social and political economy phenomena in other to glean its embedded lessons, primarily to enhance them. With historical research design and content analysis of secondary information, the paper found out that the country’s constitutional provisions on human’s rights are circumscribed by the political leadership to engender a primordial sentiment of ethnic chauvinism and religious bigotry to their advantages. The study recommends citizens’ alongside NGOs intense demand for leadership transparency and accountability amongst others to ensure social, political and economic development with harmonious co-existence at the same time. Keywords: Economic; Rawls; Nigeria; political; Social; Phenomena DOI: 10.7176/JAAS/63-02 Publication date: April 30 th 2020
Highlights
Attaining better living conditions for citizens in society has been identified as the utmost responsibility of a responsible government
This largely accounted for the diverse logics advanced by philosophers to arrive at this destination with the masses’ welfare standing out as the integral feature, often central even amidst growing plural society sometimes characterised by elements of conflicting morals, opposing beliefs and diversity of social orientations
In this line of reasoning, John Rawls (1971), a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University notes in his book “A theory of justice” published in 1971 and his corresponding further explanatory book titled, “political liberation in 1993” alongside other explanatory articles, that fair and distributive justice is the fundamental basis for an ideal society; and it is a significant identity of a well ordered political entity
Summary
Attaining better living conditions for citizens in society has been identified as the utmost responsibility of a responsible government. This largely accounted for the diverse logics advanced by philosophers to arrive at this destination with the masses’ welfare standing out as the integral feature, often central even amidst growing plural society sometimes characterised by elements of conflicting morals, opposing beliefs and diversity of social orientations In this line of reasoning, John Rawls (1971), a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University notes in his book “A theory of justice” published in 1971 and his corresponding further explanatory book titled, “political liberation in 1993” alongside other explanatory articles, that fair and distributive justice is the fundamental basis for an ideal society; and it is a significant identity of a well ordered political entity (cited in Erin, 2014). Can one maintain that this is obtainable across countries in the global space, especially in developing climes like Nigeria?
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