economic inequalities must maximally benefit the least advantaged

ロールズ本の書評。https://t.co/De1ZyleMES

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) October 1, 2020

 

For example, Rawls's difference principle -- that economic inequalities must maximally benefit the least advantaged -- buttresses critical assessments of the vast inequalities of the New Gilded Age. The priority that Rawls's equal basic liberties assign to democracy and equal opportunity of political influence, freedom of political expression, and the rule of law brings into clear focus some of what is at stake in the Trump era, with its relentless assaults on the integrity of democratic institutions, as well as the creeping authoritarianism now descending upon Western democracies.

For example, Rawls's difference principle -- that economic inequalities must maximally benefit the least advantaged -- buttresses critical assessments of the vast inequalities of the New Gilded Age. The priority that Rawls's equal basic liberties assign to democracy and equal opportunity of political influence, freedom of political expression, and the rule of law brings into clear focus some of what is at stake in the Trump era, with its relentless assaults on the integrity of democratic institutions, as well as the creeping authoritarianism now descending upon Western democracies.

To apply Rawls's principles to contemporary U.S. politics: there is something deeply unjust about a democracy in which concentrated wealth largely controls the political agenda, and political appeals regularly mobilize fabricated facts and racist, sectarian, and self-aggrandizing considerations that undermine the equal rights, liberties, opportunities, and basic needs of citizens, not to mention the rule of law itself. The integrity of democratic institutions has broken down.

書評の対象となった書籍とは反対に、ロールズ先生の正義論はいまでも通用する、と。

ミルの功利主義とロールズの正義論の論文をはじめて読んだのが大学1年だったか、2年だったよなああ・・・たしか。

時代が、ロールズの目指した社会からかけ離れすぎちゃって、役に立たない、みたいな話になっちゃったのかね？

A property-owning democracy is a social system whereby state institutions enable a fair distribution of productive property across the populace generally, rather than allowing monopolies to form and dominate.

Ideal & Nonideal Theory

August 26, 2017

John Rawls conceives of justice as fairness as a work of ideal theory. Ideal theory “assumes strict compliance and works out the principles that characterize a well-ordered society under favorable circumstances.”1 Nonideal theory, on the other hand, “is worked out after an ideal conception of justice has been chosen” and addresses what the parties are to do when conditions are not as perfect as they are assumed to be in ideal theory.