Philosophy / Unit 8 Philosophy 0338 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Difference Principle
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The idea
Rawls's difference principle: after equal basic liberties, inequalities are permitted only when they work to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged.
In practice
A surgeon may out-earn a clerk if the incentive yields care that leaves the worst-off better than leveling would.
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