GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Progressive Tax, Social Capital, Justice As Fairness

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

Says there are 3 ways to ground justice maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, or promoting virtue. This focus is all on the distribution of rights and goods. Other approaches: recognition, procedure, capabilities (in the coming weeks) Anything that comes out of just holdings, and just exchanges and transfers, is just. From each as they choose, to each as they are as as they are chosen. Focus on the correctness of individual actions not outcomes. Justice comes in the generating principles, not resulting pattern. The basketball star and the quarter property rights are sacred. Practical basis of informed agreement the social contract. Express vs tacit consent practical uses of social contract oz examples. For rawls: how a society agrees to distribute various social and political goods. Must think about justice from a neutral perspective. Not from one s biased idea of the good life . Hypothetical position from which we decide best idea of justice.