01:730:105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Wilt Chamberlain
14 Nov 2018
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Characterize what a just basic structure for society would look like. Do that by looking at what kind of basic structure people would agree to, under appropriate conditions. There are a lot of differences between people in society: Different values and priorities (different conceptions of the good) Find something that everybody could agree to, that everybody could recognize as fair. Idea: a just society is one whose basic structure is, or would be, agreed to by the members of the society (in the right kinds of conditions) A just society is one whose basic structure would be agreed to by rational people, interested only in advancing their own interests, from behind the veil of ignorance. The difference principle: social and economic equalities are just only if they benefit the worst- off embers of the society. Question about what kinds of distributions of something- wealth, income, opportunity, whatever- are just, and which are more just than others.
