"And the problem does not end with hard cases. The primary goods approach seems to take little note of the diversity of human beings. In fact, people seem to have very different needs varying with health, longevity, climatic conditions, location, work conditions, temperament, and even body size."
Cohen - equal access to advantage - a review
academic.oup.com/book/9949/ch...
“Technology has democratized access.
It has not democratized economic value.”
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Negative aim: End oppression (socially imposed hierarchies)
Positive aim: Create a community where people relate as equals
Focus: Capabilities needed to function as equal citizens in democratic society
Basis: What citizens owe each other, not cosmic justice
justice is about social institutions, not nature
Anderson agrees with Rawls on this.
Sen's stance - ophi.org.uk/sites/defaul...
"The proper negative aim of egalitarian justice is not to eliminate the impact of brute luck from human affairs, but to end oppression, which by definition is socially imposed. "
by Anderson - www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...
"I assume throughout that the persons in the original position are rational and mutually disinterested... and that they have all the capacities necessary to engage in social cooperation and lead an independent life. Thus I am excluding those with serious physical or mental defects." also Rawls (TOJ)
Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???
www.positive.news/society/yout...
"Equality of opportunity exists when policies compensate individuals with disadvantageous circumstances so
that outcomes experienced by a population depend only on factors for which persons can be considered to be responsible."
hceconomics.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...
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