CRIM 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: First Principle, Distributive Justice, Justice As Fairness
17 Dec 2019
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Instrumental rationality: have general basic knowledge, use social goods to measure prospects, need this basic general knowledge we want them to be unbiased but also want them to be equal to make inform decision based on rules. Lexical priority of the principles of justice: liberty principle, why does rule put liberty first, bc rules in principles are arranged in lexical priority. Ignores the fact that people are socially constituted: assumed that people are risk averse, not everyone believes that when people are put in the same position, not all postulates or necessarily arranges these results in lexical order. In some societies, hypothetical people might come up with different principles (may not include liberty or even have it as the second step: maybe rawls like that formula but not all society likes it. How do we divide all the benefits: not clear of what resources, criticism: Esp new and future generation is coming in.
