PHIL 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Justice As Fairness, Equal Opportunity, Meritocracy
26 May 2016
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The reflective equilibrium is supposed to apply perfectly to rawls"s theory. Open to all formal equality as careers open to. If you let people only enter into transactions in which you think they"re going to benefit, then you"d be better off / they"d be better off. A system of natural liberty is one way of thinking of an economic setup that deviates in equality in ways that make everybody better off. People are born into different starting points so it"s not actually going to be fair. Some people have been given good educations by their parents. Some people have a huge parental safety net to fall back on. Some people are poorly educate and start off with several disadvantages. We go to fair / equality of opportunity and take a step down to liberty equality. Let"s give everybody the same initial set of advantages and then see where they end up.
