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| Injustice: Injustice is a lack of fairness. It can occur when people are denied their rights, or discriminated against. It can manifest itself in poverty, crime, racism, sexism, and homophobia, in unjust laws or policies. See also Justice, Community, Society, Politics, Rights, Law._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Rawls on Injustice - Dictionary of Arguments
I 356 Wrong/injustice/Rawls: it is not written anywhere that the will of the majority is synonymous with law. If the majority can also write the Constitution, this does not guarantee that all elements are fair. I 357 If we criticise laws, we do so by showing that they would not have been elected under ideal conditions. >Law, >Society, >Legislation. I 359 Legislation/Rawls: is designed according to different principles than an ideal market; the ideal market requires different conditions of functioning and other principles. >Markets/Rawls, >Efficiency/Rawls. The goal of markets is efficiency, that of legislation is justice. I 360 While it is important to assume that ideal markets are efficient, legislation does not require all results to be fair. It is expected that the parties involved and those affected will adopt a further perspective._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Rawl I J. Rawls A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005 |
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