PHIL 2923 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Risk Aversion, Justice As Fairness
1 Jun 2016
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Handout 19: rawls (continued: the two principles of justice. ): rights and liberties; powers and opportunities; income and wealth; the social bases of self-respect. 5. 2 a first point of agreement: the general conception of justice (see tj 54) 5. 3 the special conception of justice: two principles and rules of priority (see tj 53 and 72). Some important ideas: the liberty principle has priority over everything else, fair equality of opportunity has priority over the difference principle, the difference principle grants priority to the worst-off. Importance of being clear about the kind of choice that the parties in the original position are making: the importance of having a system that serves each person"s good.
