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John Rawls: Justice as Fairness | Paul Weithman

Brain in a Vat

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Rawls's Principles Aren't Non-Aggregative

Douglas Rushkoff: Rawls's principles aren't non-aggregative, you might say. He argues that parties to his social contract would agree to two of them in order.Rushkoff: The well-being of some cannot be traded off against the well- being of others. "It's a bad distribution," he says; it gives great priority to the basic liberties.

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