POLS 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Original Position, Distributive Justice
27 Oct 2016
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Rawls continued liberty for others. attached to positions and offices open to all. Original position - we don"t know various features about ourselves. Because you don"t know who you are, have to act in favour of everyone. to be to everyone"s advantage [later amended to: to the advantage of the worst off] and b) Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both a) reasonably expected. Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar. He gives liberty rights, but some rights may be more valuable to others. Yet, there is something about having a equal right. People behind the veil of ignorance are trying to insure access to primary goods, without knowing what their life will be like, where they will be in society. Some kinds of inequalities might do for for everyone. Rational to ensure that basic rights and resources are protected.
