PHIL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Justice As Fairness, Aristocracy
26 May 2016
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How far you excel should be a function of how talented you are and how hard you work but should not be a function of where you begin / what opportunities you were born into. Rawls has an assertion of desert in a way, but it"s no use in answering the question of what our institution should look like. We don"t worry if the worst off have a chance to do better. We accept the inequalities as long as if the worst off are better off than they would have been otherwise. Rawl"s regards aristocracy as the difference principle + formal equalities of opportunities. If we"re going to help the worst off by making them as benefitted as possible, then we might as well add to this and give them genuine equal access to the good positions.
