Rawls’s Difference Principle Research

In our daily life, the problem of income distribution has always been one of the most important problem. With the development of economy, the progress of the society, our country productivity level unceasing enhancement, people’s living standard has improved significantly, but the gap between rich and poor is becoming more and more big. Starting from16th, in the communist party of China is more and more emphasis on fair allocation problem. Fair relationship with each of the common people’s vital interests, is related to social stability and harmony.Rawls proposes in the20th century’s theory of "justice as fairness", a sensation throughout the western academia. Among them, the difference principle is the second principle of rawls’s famous two justice principles, relative to his first principles of equality, freedom, caused more profound differences and a broader discussion. Difference principle is a representative of rawls justice theory point of view, it emphasizes the social and economic inequality in the most unfavorable situation members must be beneficial to the society, has the very strong practical value. This paper not only analyzes the background of the difference principle and factions view of difference principle, and from the Angle of the multivariate collectivism to critically absorb the difference principle, puts forward a set of suitable for China’s national conditions of distribution.General principles:collective benefit optimization principle. Collective interests are the sum by the collective members personal interests and public interests.The first principle:the principle of equality and freedom. The same as the first principles of rawls.The second principle:the principle of fair and equal opportunity, rawls and the second principle of fair and equal opportunity principle is the same.The third principle:according to the rule of distribution of membership, or minimum protection principle. The safeguard national basis national eligible for the lowest social and economic security.The fourth principle:principle of social and economic efficiency, and collective utilitarian principle, namely maximize the general welfare of the society. This principle allows countries through taxes and other means to allocate resources as a whole, or for public input, such as scientific research, basic construction, or used in education, training, or to reward for social undertakings have made outstanding contributions. Its aim is to maximize the overall welfare of society and the overall competitiveness.These four principles of each article has independent value, can not be replaced by other three principles; Each and no absolute priority, the restriction of the other three principles. Four principles restraining each other and promote each other, dynamically maximize the collective interests.All kinds of difference exist in contemporary China the status quo, such as the income gap, gap between urban and rural areas, different groups treatment gap and so on. Although with the United States at that time, the difference of social differences have different national conditions, but there is no doubt that under the rule of law construction reasonable reference rawls’s difference principle in contemporary China, the good and discard the dregs, from the perspective of multiple collectivism is put forward in accordance with China’s national conditions of distribution justice theory has important theoretical and practical significance.The first chapter is mainly about rawls difference principle research were reviewed. First elaborates the significance of research and put forward, and according to the collected data and material to produce the current research status of domestic and foreign scholars about the subject. Finally this paper studies the innovation are pointed out.The second chapter discusses in detail the principle of rawls’s justice and its core difference principle.The third chapter mainly discusses the multiple collectivism criticism of the difference principle and its enlightenment to China’s economic development. First is the progressive significance of rawls difference principle and defects, and then write the difference principle and marxism, the comparison of multiple collectivism, finally expounds the main problems and countermeasures of the current distribution in our country.