PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Minimax, First Principle
5 Oct 2016
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Ultimate test of a well-developed society are if its fundamental and norms pass these two principles. Second principle: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: A: reasonably expected to be everyone"s advantage. B: attached to positions and offices open to all have to be open to everyone regardless of their starting point (aka regardless of their contingent facts of their birth) The movement of individuals or families between social strata in a society. Thinks that a just society is going to be one that has a lot of social mobility. Means people are able to move up (work hard) and people can fall down (through error, misdeeds, etc) If a country has social mobility, it means the contingent facts of your birth are not your destiny. The natural distribution is neither just or unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position.
