PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick, Negative And Positive Rights
25 Aug 2020
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Distribution of goods according to needs and abilities would require coercion by the state and violation of the rights of some to enhance the welfare of others. Premised on a faculty economic assumption: zero sum gain. Socialist systems provide no incentive for people to excel at their jobs. Under socialism, people are rewarded according to their needs, not by how well or how hard they work. Some argue that welfare of the least advantaged is actually worse in socialist systems because of the lower level of wealth creation. Rawls sets forth a contract theory in which the hypothetical bargainers go behind a. Veil of ignorance in order to devise a set of fundamental agreements that will govern society. No one knows his or her place in society, class position or social status, fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, or even intelligence.
