Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 359 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Difference Principle
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The idea
Rawls's difference principle: social and economic inequalities are permissible only when attached to fair-opportunity positions and working to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged.
In practice
Behind the veil, nobody risks designing a bottom rung she might occupy. Inequality survives the choice only by serving the bottom.
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