This paper examines a variety of authors, from Plato to John Rawls and looks at why the varied theories of
justice presented
by these philosophers have not arrived at a single answer to the question "What is Justice?". Over the course of hundreds of years, no system of justice has addressed the fundamental divide between theory and
reality- what roles do human nature and
society play when determining what a just society is? The author asserts that these questions must be answered in order to describe a system of ultimate reality. The metaphor of Schroedinger's Cat is used, in addition to 8 well known authors - John Rawls, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Donne, John Stuart Mill, Henry David Thoreau, James Madison and George Clinton.