Justice

and Fairness
Presented by Group 10
Meet the Group
PAGARAGAN, SOPHIA
DANIELA
SINGSON, SYRINE NICOLE
BALDEMOS, KEITH
SAMANTHA
TAMAYO, CHERISH DIVINE
PIAMONTE, CHERRY MAE
The Thought Experiment

• Veil of ignorance.
John Rawls: Theory of Justice

1. The Principle of Equal Liberty

2. a. The Difference Principle
b. Principle of Fair Equality of
Opportunity
The Principle of Equal Liberty

Whether the action protects our

rights from invasion and
provides rigts for us equal to
the rights of others.
a. The Difference b. Principle of Fair
Princple Equality of
Opportunity
There will be
inequalities, but we are Requires that job
morally obligated to qualifications be related
improve the worst off to the job.
unless it would ake
everyone worse off.
An Evaluation of Rawls' Principles

• One of the criticisms against Rawls' Justice as Fairness

principles is that they do not allow ample tolerance for
various religious and intensely held beliefs.
 Distributive Justice

Rawls "Justice as Fairness" principles is an example of a social

justice concept called distributive justice. This concept basically
concerns the nature of a socially just allocation of goods in a
society.
• Equity - Members' outcomes
should be based upon their input. • Need- Those in greatest needs
• Equality - Regardless of their
should be provided with
inputs, all group members should
resources needed to meet those
be given an equal share of the
needs.
rewards/costs. • Responsibility- Group members
• Power - Those with more
who have the most should share
authority, status, or control over
their resources with those who
the group should receive more
have less.
than those in lower level
positions.
 Egalitarian

- is a set of closely related socio-economic-political theories

without exemption promote the proposition that all society
members ought to have exactly equal amount of resources.
 Capitalist. Laissez-faire capitalist

- when people, businesses and corporations perform based on

their individual self-interest for their own benefit.
 Socialist
State socialist distributive
justice is a system where the
government or a central
authority controls the
production of goods and
services.
 • TAXATION
states or governments finance their
expenditure, basically and ideally for
constituents, by imposing charges on them

State and Citizens

and corporate entities.

Responsibility
• Government expenditures
fundamentally involve social welfare
programs for citizens.

TAXATION AND INCLUSIVE

GROWTH
•This relationship between taxes and
social welfare programs drives the
proposition that taxes are essentially
socialist, we mean the Democratic
socialism.
 • Democratic socialism works hand-
in-hand with capitalism, free
markets, and private property.

State and Citizens

Responsibility
• The system requires paying high taxes
to help pay for a wide range of state-
funded social services.

TAXATION AND INCLUSIVE

GROWTH
• Inclusive growth- is economic growth
that creates opportunity for all segments
of the population and distributes the
dividends of increased prosperity, both in
monetary and non monetary terms, fairly
across society.
State and Citizens • In many capitalist countries, it is
said that people have not seen their
Responsibility income rise for many years.

TAXATION AND INCLUSIVE

GROWTH • Some economists thus argue that
democratic socialism, not capitalism,
could really result in inclusive growth.
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