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In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this … Theory, as outlined in the Restatement (Rawls 2001), goes well beyond the definition of a distributive value judgment, in … identified a priori, and partial justice orderings derived accordingly …
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In this paper, the authors challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that … this theory, as outlined in the restatement (Rawls, Justice as Fairness: a Restatement, 2001), goes well beyond the … potentially Rawls-optimal social contracts can be identified a priori, and partial justice orderings derived accordingly. …
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The present study compares the perceptions of fairness of national earned incomes between the populations of Germany and the rest of Europe based on recent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The vast majority of European respondents consider very low gross earned incomes to be unjustly...
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Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
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important for designing social policies, there has been little research on this evaluation. To close this gap, we use justice … evaluations of income and wealth in the European Social Survey (2018/2019). We identify four types of justice profiles among the … justice and consider where injustice is perceived in the income and wealth distributions when designing policies. …
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Distributive value judgments based on the ‘origins’ of economic inequalities (e.g. circumstances and responsible choices) are increasingly evoked to argue that ‘the worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal’. However, one may reasonably agree that distributive value...
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