theories of justice

In what sense , if any , is Rawls ' Difference Principle egalitarian

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Introduction

Egalitarians are concerned with the normative principles of distributive justice . They believe in radical equality in distribution and insist that every person should have the same level of material goods and services because people should be given equal respect and equality of opportunity . However , the problems of construction and measurement that are inherent in this conceptualization of equality

, a number of proposed solutions have been put forth and hence egalitarianism is not one single idea but a group of principles that are closely related . Moreover , the wealth of an economy is not fixed and changes from one period to the next and wealth is produced by those who are more productive than others and hence entitled to greater incomes . It was this fundamental difficulty of construction that inspired Rawls concept of the Difference principle

The Difference Principle is the most widely discussed theory of principle justice since it was published in the Theory of Justice in 1971 and further explored in Political Liberalism in 1993 . The Theory of Justice proposes two principles

The first principle states that every person has an equal claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic rights and liberties . The second principles states that social and economic inequalities satisfy the following two conditions : a ) They are to positions and offices open to all under conditions of...