How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 justice = fair distribution of primary goods → built by fusing liberty + correction of arbitrary advantage
Route 2 Rawls the liberal egalitarian, between absolute liberty and absolute equality → distribution from fair procedure, not charity
social contract method + original position → veil strips class / talent / lottery → First Principle: equal basic liberty, lexically prior (liberal element) → talents / birth morally arbitrary → maximin reasoning → Second Principle: fair equality of opportunity + Difference Principle (egalitarian element) → primary goods steered toward least advantaged
Nozick: end-state / entitlement violation; Marxists: veil hides private property; Sen: capabilities beyond primary goods
Route 1 liberty prior, inequality conditional → liberalism made humane and anti-utilitarian
Route 2 distributive justice as synthesis → redistribution a requirement of fairness, welfare state given a philosophical defence
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Justice — 11 questions in the Vault.
- Rawls’ idea of the ‘liberal self’ is too individualistic. Explain, in this context, the communitarian critique of Rawls’ theory of justice.
- Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of social justice leads to ‘egalitarian justice’ as compared to Rawls’ ‘justice as fairness’ which aims at the notion of ‘pure procedural justice’....
- Examine the entitlement theory of justice.
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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