PO350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Equal Opportunity, Common Good, Pareto Efficiency
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Argues for the important of choice in a genuinely free society: when we are free to choose the course of our lives, our lives are the most meaningful and valuable to us. Social justice is the basic structure of society, the way in which major institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation. Wants an account of justice that balances the values of freedom, equality, fairness and the common good. Justice must respond to two fundamental ideas and two basic requirements. Justice must tell us how basic rights and duties are assigned by the fundamental institutions of our society; our principles need to orient us toward the idea of fairness. Justice is a basic structure that satisfies two conditions: Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive scheme of basic liberties compatible with a similar scheme of liberties for others (i. e. voice, assembly, personal integrity etc)
