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What Makes a Just Society?
Rawls, Nozick, and the great debate about distribution
If you didn't know your position in society before birth, what rules would you choose?
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John Rawls proposed the 'veil of ignorance': if you had to choose society's rules without knowing your place in it, you would choose principles that protect the worst-off. His 'difference principle' permits inequalities only if they benefit the least advantaged.
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