PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Marginal Utility, Justice As Fairness, Well-Order
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Difference principle/distributive justice: social and economics inequalities are to. Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive scheme of equal basic. 1. liberties compatible with a similar scheme of liberties for all. 2. be arranged so that they are both a) reasonably expected to be to everyone"s advantage (especially the worst-off) and b) attached to positions and offices open to all. The two principles couldn"t so easily be derived from reason directly. Instead, rawls proposes a thought experiment involving a virtual social contract, arrived at by rational participants under specified conditions. Claim: participants would settle on those principles, providing they knew neither too little nor too much" Who are they, what they know, an what motivates them to form the contract. They are rational: and can trace likely consequences: they "can resist present temptations, and are not moved by mere difference to (online) o.
