Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Procedural Justice, Justice As Fairness

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Dennis Klimchuk

Document Summary

Rawls would think there is problem with utilitarianism. He would think that there should be an absolute line, than everything above that can apply to utilitarianism. Everyone has similar rights and duties, and income and wealth are evenly shared. Three kinds of procedural justice: perfect procedural justice (e. g. dividing a cake) 2: pure procedural justice (e. g. a game) imperfect procedural justice (e. g. a trial) The role of principle of fair equality of opportunity is to ensure that the system of cooperation is one of pure procedural justice .