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Rawls' Theory of Justice

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Do You Think About the Difference Principle?

The two principles together really envisage a society where none of the social facts about people's backgrounds would actually have a material influence on their chances of success. Did you work out in any way how this could be achievable, or does it remain a sort of idealistic boon? So he does talk about some of what would be involved there. He thinks what we need is a fiscal structure that stops this kind of build up of enormous wealth across generations that turns into unfair levels of advantage from generation to generation. Joe, Wolf, what do we know about the difference principle?

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