PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Justice As Fairness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

Document Summary

First principle: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties (e. g. : right to vote, run for office, free speech, due process, etc. ), compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. 1st argument for the difference principle: the intuitive equality of. Prevailing justification for economic distribution: equality of opportunity so long as we all have a fair go at earning 1 million dollars, it"s okay that someone earns that. He requires equality of opportunity, but denies that the people who fill the positions are thus entitled to a greater share of society"s resources. People only get more if they earn it and if they are not precluded from earning it because of morally arbitrary factors: race, ethnicity, gender, class, etc.