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Dworkin’s Theory Of Equality Of Resources

Posted on:2016-09-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ShanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330467997992Subject:Foreign philosophy
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As an important theory of contemporary political philosophy and moralphilosophy theory of equality, one of the most famous theory is the theory ofequality America famous political philosopher John Rawls. It can be said a lot ofdebate about the contemporary theory of equality is unfolded surrounding Rawls’stheory of equality. Rawls’s "difference principle" is an important part of his theory ofequality. He only with "the primary social good" as defined in the mostdisadvantaged people standard. This makes Rawls’s theory faces criticism because ofthe neglect of responsibility problems. The famous political philosophers andphilosophers of law of Ronald Dworkin theory of Rawls reconstruction and criticism,he will "resources" instead of "primary good", of a structure called the "equality ofresources" distribution justice theory. The key resource equality theory is Dworkinwill responsibility into his theory of equality, equality of resources of the target ismainly embodied in the "ambition-ambition" and "endowment-insensitive".Dworkin considers that there are those who have "selection factors such as ambition"caused by the inequality can be allowed, individuals should bear the responsibility.But should exclude "endowment" of this kind of brute luck factors influence ondistributive justice, people should not have to bear the responsibility. Can say,Dworkin is in efforts to reconcile the responsibility and equality.The first part of the article focuses on the resources generated backgroundequality. No matter what type of theory, it must be generated and it was in thebackground there are closely linked, but it is also on the theory for improvement andinnovation. Dworkin under the prevailing context, and contemporary Rawls, Nozickon distributive justice theory of heated debate.The second part of this paper is to introduce the contents of Equality ofresources. Rawls’ theory of justice assigned to investigate less involved on personalresponsibility, the other hand is very concerned about this aspect of Dworkin.Especially government for citizens equal respect and concern. Dworkin first proposed two principles of responsibility, but also with the island further auctionsand virtual insurance market two theories of equal distribution of resources. This isequality of resources on the core content.The third part of this paper will be elaborated on equality of resources on theparties debate. Each theory is not perfect impeccable. Theory only in the constantcriticism, after the correction can be more perfect. This chapter describes thecontroversy, including Dworkin and Rawls, Dworkin’s critique of the concept ofequality of welfare and Dworkin’s response to Amartya Sen and others.The fourth part of this paper is to carry out an objective evaluation of equalityof Natural Resources. Dworkin’s theory of equality of resources with rich theoreticalconnotation of equality into a pivotal position. Equality of resources gives newmeaning to distributive justice. For distributive justice larger theoretical frameworkto add a new rational thinking, many theorists on the basis of improved andinnovative. This is a new theoretical approach to solve the allocation problem.However, by itself or defective, the theoretical background of the requirements isthat it requires a completely free, unrestricted competitive market. And on thetheoretical framework, there are some unreasonable place. This article will beexplained.
Keywords/Search Tags:equality of resources, distributive justice, Dworkin
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