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"difference Principle" And Social Harmony

Posted on:2008-08-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360215960175Subject:Administrative Management
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In the report of the Sixteenth National Congress, the Communist Party of China takes "a more harmonious society", which signs the realization of "all-round construction well-off society of a higher standard to benefit of well over one billion people", as one important target. The Decision of Some Major Issue on Building the Socialist Harmonious Society by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which is passed in the 6th Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, points out: "social harmony is the nature attribute of Chinese characteristic socialism, and the important guarantee of prosperity of the country, national rejuvenation, and happiness of the people." And it emphasizes: "social equity and justice is fundamental condition of social harmony". Therefore, in the process of building the socialist harmonious society, we should go deep into discussing "social equity and justice".Realization of social harmony and building fine society are the social ideal that human being assiduously seeks all the time. For thousands of years, politicians and thinkers at all times and in all lands have launched active exploration and enthusiastic argument around this question, and set up justice theory systems with different characteristics. Studying and summing up these thought resources carefully, to establish and perfect the socialist justice theories and principles, to solve each kind of complex social contradiction and problem that we face, and to prompt to carry out each kind of work of developing the socialist harmonious society smoothly, is of great advantage.In the final analysis, maintaining social fairness and justice and building the harmonious society are the pursuit of freedom and equality realizing. However, on the one hand, equality and freedom are inseparable, because without freedom there will be no equality, or without equality there will be no freedom; on the other hand, in the actual social life, equality and freedom are often contradictory. This pair of contradiction forms the theme of the western social justice theory in more than 100 years in the past. John·Rawls as a contemporary American famous philosopher and ethicist has devoted himself to setting up the justice theoretical system, just in order to pursue good recipe for resolving or relaxing this contradiction.One bright dot of Rawls's justice theory is "the difference principle". Paying the earnest attention to "the most unfavorable members of the society", namely, the social disadvantaged groups, shows outstanding characteristic and individual character of his justice theory. Therefore, "the difference principle" ought to become the priority that we study. However, it has not highlighted this key in the academic circle of our country, according to the actual situation at present. Therefore, we should reinforce research on it. Using historical analytic method, system analytic method and comparison analytic method, this paper attempts to: first, carry out comparatively all-round and systematic analysis of "the difference principle" on the basis of comprehensive holding Rawls's "two justice principles used in the system", in the hope of understanding the core status of "the difference principle" in Rawls's entire justice theory system, understanding it's tendency, essence, advantage, and purpose that is relaxing social contradiction and promoting social harmony, and then understanding it's important theory value and actual meaning; second, in the course of analyzing and inspecting it linking up our country's related though in history, find out conjunction between "the difference principle" and Chinese tradition correlative though, to prompt to go deep into further research and achieve much better result.This paper consists of three parts: "the difference principle" is core and characteristic of Rawls's justice theory; critique and appraisal of Rawls's "the difference principle" from Chinese and foreign scholars; the social disadvantaged groups is target of "the difference principle". In the first part, this paper inspects social and ideological background of Rawls's justice theory, analyzes the basic structure of A Theory of Justice, and elaborates on change to statement of the two justice principle, shows the important status of "the difference principle" in Rawls's justice theory system. In the second part, this paper explains critique of Rawls's "the difference principle" from foreign scholars, and appraisal of Rawls's "the difference principle" from Chinese scholars, analyzes conjunction between "the difference principle" and our country's tradition correlative though. In the third part, this paper expounds the first problem concerned by Rawls is justice problem of the social system, systemically analyzes tendency of "the difference principle", essence of "the difference principle", advantage of "the difference principle", "the difference principle" and "the Compensation principle". This paper reveals the purpose of Rawls's "the difference principle" that is restricting two poles to overly split up, easing social contradiction, promoting social harmony. Finally, unifying our country's reality, this paper further discusses the enlightenment of constructing the socialism harmonious society to our country from "the difference principle".
Keywords/Search Tags:John·Rawls, A Theory of Justice, The difference principle, Harmonious society
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