models based on entitlement claims and property rights. • (i) Analyze Cohen’s essay‚ drawing comparisons/contrasts with Rawls’s egalitarianism and Nozick’s/Hosper’s libertarianism. • (ii) If you were given the choice – from outside the Original Position -- to live your life (presumably with your own family) in either a society based on libertarian principles or one based on Rawlsian principles‚ which would you choose and why? [20 marks] • Note: a copy of Cohen’s essay willl be provided with
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inequality as long as it makes the worst person better off. He comes up with a thought experiment known as the original position. Rawls (1971‚ p. 208)‚ states that the original position is a "purely hypothetical situation characterized so as to lead to a certain conception of justice." Rawls talks about the original position that individuals find themselves in and because of this original position‚ rational‚ self-interested individuals are likely to push for equal opportunity. Equal opportunity‚ can be
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rights indicates that we can restrict freedom as long as the freedom discussed isn’t on an official list. It’s also not made clear how Rawls knows what principles individuals will agree to when he talks about the original position‚ importantly it also isn’t clear how the original position will help us in any way determine the best principles of justice. Rawls wants equality and for the worst off in society to benefit however the difference principle he suggests would force society to reject prosperity
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certain social outcomes. Rawls states that social justice is a type of fairness‚ where the social cooperation appropriately distributes the burdens and benefits of society (1999: 4). Rawls aims to do this using the theoretical device of the Original Position. The intention of the thought experiment is to establish rules for the basic structure of society that would create a fairer society and advance the interests of the mutually disinterested parties involved. The conclusion about social justice
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fairness” and from the theory of justice‚ the liberty and difference principle was derived. Rawls argues that "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions‚ as information is of preparations of thought." From the theory of justice the original position and the veil of ignorance were also developed. These concepts will be explained further. The aim of this essay is to outline and formulate major distinctions between the two theories listed above by stating the similarities as well as the differences
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fairness and equality from behind what he terms a "veil of ignorance". Rawls’s veil of ignorance is a component of the way people can construct society. He refers to an "original position" in which a person is attempting to determine a fair arrangement for society without any preconceived notions or prejudices. In this original position‚ people are behind what Rawls calls a "Veil of Ignorance" and do not know where they will fall in the social hierarchy in terms of race‚ class‚ sex‚ disability‚ and other
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compare and contrast them. John Rawls argues that the principles of justice that govern the basic structure of society are the principles that would be agreed upon in a hypothetical fair bargaining position‚ which he calls “the original position.” Throughout his writing‚ Rawls describes the original position and conveys how it would lead to agreement on two principles of justice. The first principle that he describes says that each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of
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you could never actually eliminate all of your personal biases and prejudices‚ you would need to take steps at least to minimize them. Rawls suggests that you imagine yourself in an original position behind a veil of ignorance . Behind this veil‚ you know nothing of yourself and your natural abilities‚ or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex‚ race‚ nationality‚ or individual tastes. Behind such a veil of ignorance all individuals are simply specified as rational‚ free‚ and morally
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there should be an equal distribution of arbitrary benefits. Rawls’ difference principle says that “social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone’s advantage‚ and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.” (Rawls‚ p. 56) He includes this natural lottery in his definition of social and economic inequalities. Thus the advantages provided by nature should be reorganized so as to be shared by everyone. This will occur because
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Kathryn Fewell Moral Theology October 18‚ 2012 Original Sin Original sin can be defined as the first human beings disobeying God’s word. Besides the sin of Adam and Eve‚ original sin describes the fallen state of human nature which now affects everyone that is born into this world. Through Jesus Christ we can be redeemed for our sins. From day one God has loved each and every person unconditionally‚ but we as humans are not born knowing and loving God. A relationship with God is something
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