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This article explain and justify �Theory of Justice as fairness� Which is originally the work of John Rawls, as described in his work �The Theory of Justice� (1971). To what exactly John Rawls is looking for a theory of Justice. He gave some arguments in order to criticize utilitarianism. Rawls� theory of justice builds on the social contract tradition to offer an alternative to utilitarianism. Rawls singles out justice not maximum welfare for well-ordered society as �the first virtue of social institutions�. Current research in normative economics comes closer to Rawls� original proposal of a non-consequentialist theory of justice and then address some of the debates his principles, arguments and evaluates whether his position regarding establishing justice is strong or plausible. This paper is in three sections, in first section explain utilitarianism, in second section Rawls Theory of justice and his argument against utilitarianism and how he established his theory of justice as fairness and in third section give findings and conclusion.