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The Fallacy Of The Welfare Society

Posted on:2013-08-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X B ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2246330371471409Subject:Foreign philosophy
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The contemporary capitalist is encountering the unprecedented challenge. The global spread of economic crisis, the income of the Rich and the Disadvantaged presents Polarity of the growth, the countries’s game gradually upgrades On the climate.etc. These problems all point to the same goal, that is capitalism. The capitalism have been pursuing high Welfare policy in the past few decades. High welfare policy results in the government was heavily in debt, even in the specter of not to run, Investment of the public welfare undertakes difficult period. However,all these are concerned with the Welfare policy of the western society. On the one hand, for the real election victory, the western society’s election politics push forward the Various welfare to make a promise for curry favour the voters.This utilitarianism politics suffers highly denounce, Different political parties Put forward the related election program in order to gain the popular support,which leads to highly welfare of the western society, the government is overwhelmed, that the dilemma Often make western government into the Closed crisis. On the other hand, high Welfare system strengthened the people’s lazy psychology, the people always hope the government to solve everything in real life, such as leisure, work, and other aspects of the life problems.Although the market economic system has been formed a good sense of competition of the western society,but the consciousness has been gradually engulfed by lazy democracy, and so the sociaty is sinked into a strange phenomenon:on the one hand,the competitive awareness encourages individuals’Self-improvement, self-reliance and independence; On the other hand, the individuals hope to achieve the purpose that the political parties election seduces the promises. From the lay speaked, the national character of western society is falling into a set of contradictions.It is based on the present situation, the welfare society is criticized. It is necessary that discusses the differences between Rawls and Robert Nozick on welfare society. The necessity embodies for three levels:First, in the career of Rawls solving the difference between the rich and the poor that the laissez-faire capitalism produced, and in the lack of necessary to solve social vulnerable groups mechanism, he puts forward that the justice principles is the ethics basis for complete politics in order to breakthrough the laissez faire capitalism ignoring reasonable distribution of whole social welfare and social resource excessively flowing to the wealthy groups, which brings about the social class distinct, and makes the social fall into confrontation.It is necessary to change this situation, and it is needed to pay attention to interests demand of social vulnerable group in order to form some form of "mutual benefit" society. But the idea is the crazy impetus to the extremism of the contemporary western welfare system. However,the individual does not think that this salvation is a kind of promoting the behavior of self-reliance and the self-improvement,but will make the behavior as the tactics that government ingratiates the voters. Therefore, the individual regards it as a trading behavior, the individual is expected to receive the largest utility,which results all excessive utilitarian form politics in the career of individual choice in whole society, so paying attention to other people’s survival is turned into a trade behavior. Second, Rawls’s political ethics imagination brings about a consequencese that Nozick find reality evidence against him,Rawls tries to be the realization of the equal rights vulnerable groups against social conflict, and stables the development of capitalist that takes liberal rights as core.But,as the Nozick,it is the behavior that make freedom is no longer dinkum,freedom is sinked into the trap of equality, the liberty had to transfer its traditional field in order to realize the welfare of the individual equality, absolute rights is turned into a dependencies of welfare equality. So,as the Nozick, the welfare social only is a slogan of the illusion that satisfies the benefits of voters, this slogan hurts the individual talent and divine rights,it brings about the individual falling into the vortex for growth of the public welfare and distribution of equal welfare, the individual is no longer independent individuals, it is the theindividual with the spirit of sacrifice and for others of the existing,the individual is of absence to oneself. From the current society’s opinion, individual’s public makes public welfare devoured the individual, public welfare is into infinite expansion that brings about government infinite,and Capitalist government have always been as limited government, how the limited government realizes infinite responsibility, it means that the power and responsibility of the government are an existence of a disproportionate gap, the government increasingly embarrassed burden,which cause the capitalist society’s predicament. Thirdly,from the socialist countries’point, the realization of the individual benefits must be respect the equal distribution of the public welfare, or else they would be in the personal, disorder distribution. Rawls respect for the distribution of vulnerable groups that has certain inspiration effect for the socialist, but the contemporary western infinitely expand the limits of welfare distribution,which is a wake-up call for the socialism, and excessive distribution of wealth is transferedto the individual,it must result in the dilemma of Countries poor people rich. The government must be reasonable distribution of social resources,and it makes part possible resourse that influence the resources of sustainable development of the country mastered in government hands according to a certain proportion, it is regarded as a kind of rational choice. Instead,the Nozick’s boredom to welfare society inspires the socialist state in the distribution of benefits process, it can’t ignore individual rights in order to ensure the individual private sector, and maintains the individual deserved rights that constitution endowed, this is also a most significantly realistic applications that compares two.“Welfare society’s fallacy:on critics of Nozick to Rawls” tries to Compares Rawls and Nozick, and through the analysis of the two points out that theinspired and the defects of the two. It provides some reference for political civilization and the economic civilization of the contemporary Chinese society. As the contemporary capitalist Mired in urbanization, class conflict, racial discrimination, rich-poor and so on. Carefully analyses Rawls that is on behalf of left liberalism and Nozick that is behalf of far-right liberalism that may be find t source of the current crisis of capitalism. At the same time, also from the perspective of comparing both understands lesson and experience of the development of capitalism, it can be regarded as an optional road.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rawls, Nozick, Welfare society, Absolute rightsr
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