POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Justice As Fairness, Communitarianism, Robert Nozick
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Cost of providing positive rights could interfere with commitment to negative rights- to obtain a basic standard of living for all citizens you must tax even healthy people. To render what is due to them. Focuses on the fairness of the outcome itself in terms of distribution of goods. From each according to his/her ability; to each according to his/her need . Liberalism- can social justice be based in individual self- interest. Assumptions: desire for primary goods, self interested decisions. Liberty principle- without knowing anything about your life you would chose the principles around which society should be organized, everyone would have an equal rights and liberties. Difference principle- you would choose a society in which if there were social and economic difference, you would want those suffering to get the most benefits, the poor would be advantaged. Fair opportunity principle- there would be equal opportunity to get into positions with some advantage to them.