Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Decision Rule, Distributive Justice, Robert Nozick
25 Nov 2014
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Video bbc social justice video cleaning lady vs business man, stays late and awkwardly see discrepancy in wage If you did not know you were cleaner or suit, how would you arrange things (rawls) meddling with economy is harmful though but rawls answers that social justice means help the poor and not bleed the rich. Impartiality justice as fairness : just principles are derived from a fair decision making procedure. Constraints on choosing: physical constraints not everyone can live in a palace, etc. (moderate scarcity) Lexical priority rules cannot trade freedoms for money, fair equality of opportunity cannot be overridden by difference principle. Why greatest equal liberties: veil of ignorance makes it irrational to discriminate against anyone, maximizes your share of primary goods, therefore the more basic freedoms the better. Rawls in a nutshell: morally arbitrary differences social and natural should benefit the socially and naturally unlucky. Injustice is inequality that does not benefit everyone.
