a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

a)to the greatest benefit of least advantaged, consistent with the just saving principle,
and
b)attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of
opportunity" (Rawls;1971; 302)
Regarding these principles attained, the first priority rule is, in words of Rawls,
“priority of liberty”. He implies that there exist two conditions in restriction of liberties
in the name of liberties.
(a) a less extensive liberty must strengthen the total system of liberty shared by all;
(b)a less than equal liberty must be acceptable to those with the lesser liberty
(Rawls;1971; 302).
According to Rawls, implementation of these principles is important point for a
good/fair society. For this reason, Rawls, who is in search of a practiced justice not in
production relations but in distribution relations, has a theory about how justice
principles will be applied and his four-stage sequence proposal takes place in this
theory. First one of these stages is selection of the sides at original position, the justice
principle and their adoption of it. In the second stage sides are oriented toward a
constitutional agreement. In this stage the constitutional powers of the administration
and basic rights of citizens are determined. In constitutional stage priority is given to the
liberty and freedom. According to Rawls this priority and process; “it guarantees
selection of a system guaranteeing moral liberty, and thought, belief and religious
freedom in constitutional agreement” (Hünler, 1997, 57-65). In the third stage; the
justice of laws and policies are determined. In the organization of economic justice in
other words in the distribution justice an arrangement where distribution results are just
is proposed during legislation period. The principle of this arrangement is making the
least advantaged people reach to social minimum level (Rawls, 1971, 276). In the last
and fourth stage is the application of rules into the situations and observation of them by
the citizens in general. In the fourth stage which is the judicial stage the constitutional
and legislation stages are considered at the points of conscience and civilian
disobedience. These last three stages are the ones which procedural justice is practiced
and show how justice functions at the disidealistic situations.
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