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’. Comment.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 both are egalitarians → share the end, differ in route → substantive vs proceduralRoute 2 question separates two routes to equality…
Rawls’ idea of the ‘liberal self’ is too individualistic. Explain, in this context, the communitarian critique of Rawls’ theory of justice.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 original position + veil of ignorance → chooser stripped of class / gender / talents / good → the “unencumbered self”Route…
Explain how Rawls used the liberal and egalitarian perspective to develop his concept of distributive justice.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 justice = fair distribution of primary goods → built by fusing liberty + correction of arbitrary advantageRoute 2 Rawls the liberal…
How has Rawls enriched the idea of justice in liberalism?
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 pre-Rawls liberal justice = liberty + formal equality + procedural fairness → thin on distributionRoute 2 utilitarianism widens to aggregate welfare…
Examine the entitlement theory of justice.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 justice as history of holdings, not a pattern → Locke, inviolable rightsRoute 2 entitlement vs patterned / end-state justice → just…
Rawls’ theory of justice is both contractual and distributive. Examine.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 contractual in method + distributive in result → the two bound togetherRoute 2 the hypothetical contract is the source → it…
Comment on distributive justice in about 150 words.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 fair allocation of benefits + burdens → Aristotle’s classical form, distinct from corrective justiceRoute 2 not whether to distribute but on…
Comment on substantive justice in about 150 words.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 procedural = fair rules / method → substantive = fair outcome → judged by condition of the disadvantagedRoute 2 justice not…
Analyse John Rawls’ justification of discrimination to achieve the goals of justice.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 liberal-egalitarian puzzle → how can fairness permit any inequalityRoute 2 discrimination just only if it lifts the least advantaged → inequality…
Examine communitarian perspectives on justice.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 reject liberal abstract self → justice from the situated self → good over rightRoute 2 liberalism = individual + right prior…
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