5 2 2014 Rawls 1921 2002 Son of Baltimore attorney Early event shaped his career decision When he was young he contracted illness that didn t affect him but he carried it and his brothers died because of him but he wasn t completely responsible it wasn t his control Taught at Cornell Harvard Influence of Kant concrete way to determine whether our acts are just Social Relativist but also Objective 2nd influence Mill Good overall long term happiness of the society Gilligan ethics of care Justice as Fairness Equity Caring Veil of Ignorance can only imagine experiment couldn t really do it A Unlimited B 1 000 000 0 30 000 Ultimate fairness is because we don t separate out any individual or group everyone treated equal from beginning Society A B A works like capitalist America unlimited amount of money the lowest class is suffering B There would be a limit to how much money you could make per year anything higher would be redistributed to lower community Most people would chose B Take soul out of body pick society A or B Once you go to that society you don t know who you re going to be B better society So should we not have a society structured like A Ignorance is you don t know where you re going to be born so people who don t have a choice of their society newborns should somehow have opinion what class they are born to Falsely accused of communist because there s still range of economy Difference Principle Differences in resource distribution are tolerable if they benefit the least well off Robert Nozick 1938 2002 Died same year as Rawls Born from Russian Jewish immigrant watched them work hard Came from poverty lost brothers Struggle watching parents succeed from own work Justice liberty Libertarians Human s because they re human beings are entitled to maximum freedoms minimum government control Freedom 2 ways Life choices Properties Against drug laws marriage bans etc maximum human choices John Locke 1632 1704 contracts defense 1 STEALING education Nozick criticism of Rawls 1 Justice is stealing 2 Veil of ignorance not realistic him fairness justice 1 Theory of Property Economic equality he says we should have a fair economic society because to Straightforward WE OWN WHATEVER WE MIX OUR LABOR WITH You own what you mix your labor with EX apple tree out in nature if you take the time to tend that apple tree harvest the fruit it s yours You took care of it it s your fruit to have sell etc If someone walked up and took an apple it wouldn t be stealing though because it s not anyone owning it Stealing because someone labored for it Locke because he uses it to recognize veil of ignorance Nozick said in society B they take money from top redistributed to the lower classes you re stealing from top burners because they worked to have that money He uses Locke s definition to attack Rawls
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