This final essay is worth 20 percent of your total grade. It should be a minimum

This final essay is worth 20 percent of your total grade. It should be a minimum of 4-5 double-spaced pages (approx. 1000-1250 words) and include at least six sources from the course materials.
Essay Prompt: It is time to consider the ideas and issues important to your political vision of the future with the knowledge gained throughout this course. To do this, write an essay that responds to Rawls’s ideas of justice-as-fairness and/or political liberalism by also drawing on at least two other political philosophers that support or complete your own political vision.
Guidelines:
You may agree and/or disagree with all or some aspects of Rawls’s. Your focus can be on Rawls’s theory of justice or political liberalism, or both. Your response to Rawls’s ideas may also simply provide a basis for writing about the ideas and issues important to your political vision of the future.
You must engage at least two specific concepts and ideas from Rawls (e.g., veil of ignorance, justice as fairness, political conception of justice, comprehensive doctrine/background, public reason, reasonableness) that are relevant to your argued vision.
You must also engage other concepts and ideas that are specific to your two chosen political philosophers. For example:
Locke: natural law (reason), natural rights (life, liberty, property), self-ownership, private property, popular sovereignty/representation
Rousseau: moral freedom/autonomy, sentiment/compassion, inequality, political equality, private will, general will, civic virtue, and participation.
Kant: freedom/autonomy, universal law and rights, categorical imperative, treatment of others as ends, kingdom of ends, public reason, no legislation of happiness or private interests, articles within perpetual peace, republicanism, cosmopolitanism.
Marx: capital/labor, alienation, human freedom, modes of production, capitalism, global markets.
Mill: individual liberty, social and civil liberty, free speech/opinion, individuality, political authority, harm principle, tyranny of majority, social reform, expansion of rights
Nozick: liberty, rights, property, tax as theft, entitlement, night watchman state, anarchy, utopia
Oher contemporary concepts and issues: gender, race, and cultural biases in the nature of the liberal individual; contractual relations; religious and cultural communities and identities; pluralism and universalism; state sovereignty, cosmopolitanism