How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 equal moral worth, not sameness → Aristotle: equals equally, unequals unequally
Route 2 two readings of equality → same rule for all vs treatment by circumstance / need
equal treatment = sameness in law (Nozick → redistribution as rights-violation) → but unequal starting points → Dalits / Blacks / women / disabled → identical rule entrenches advantage → Tawney pike–minnows → fair treatment corrects → differential treatment by need / disadvantage → Rawls difference principle → Sen resources vs functionings → protective discrimination / affirmative action
Nozick: differential treatment violates rights → answer: not arbitrary, bounded, only to protect the weakest
Route 1 identical treatment of unequals reproduces inequality → equality = fair treatment
Route 2 fair treatment secures equal worth in moral + material sense → distributive equality
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Equality — 13 questions in the Vault.
- What is capability approach? Elaborate the distinctive features of the capability theory of equality.
- The freedom of the pike is death to the minnows. (150 words)
- Write a note on the relation between equality and
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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