PHIL 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Distributive Justice, Equal Opportunity, Moral Character
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What punishment should they receive: distributive justice. When someone break natural law , violate right or law create imbalance and injustice justice tries to resolve imbalance and injustice. Historical aspects (changes in time) past and present. Justice balance and equable, fairness. Inequality in the distributions of resources and powers in contemporary canadian society. Most significant differences in the distributions of resources and powers amongst individuals and groups don"t seem to reflect facts about individual abilities and willingness to work hard: process of principles of justice (veil of ignorance) Principles to evaluate the basic structures and institutions of a society (constitution, structure of government, political system, economic system, property system, family) Parties don"t know who they gonna become, which positions they gonna be at. Parties are equal in power, self-interested, rational, and willing to treat others as equal. These parties are imagined to be in a dispute over how best to continue or change some aspect of their social institution.
