What is Rawls's theory of justice?

Distributive justice vs Corrective justice
Distributive justice: justice concerned with how benefits and burdens are shared across society. Corrective justice: justice concerned with putting right a wrong between two parties.
Procedural justice vs Substantive justice
Procedural justice: justice in the way a decision is reached. Substantive justice: justice in the outcome itself.
Rawls's veil of ignorance vs Nozick's entitlement theory
Rawls's veil of ignorance: the device of choosing principles without knowing one's own place in society. Nozick's entitlement theory: the view that holdings are just if acquired and transferred justly.

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What is meant by justice, and why might law and justice not always coincide?
Model answer
Justice refers to fairness and the proper application of law. Although law aims to achieve justice, unjust laws can exist, meaning law and justice do not always coincide.
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What is distributive justice?
Model answer
Justice concerned with how benefits and burdens are shared out across a society.
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What is corrective justice?
Model answer
Justice concerned with putting right a wrong between two parties, which is the concern of the courts.
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What did Aristotle contribute to theories of justice?
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The distinction between distributive justice, allocating goods proportionally to merit, and corrective justice, restoring the balance after a wrong.
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What is Rawls's theory of justice?
Model answer
That principles of justice are those which rational people would choose behind a veil of ignorance, not knowing their own place in society.
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What is Rawls's difference principle?
Model answer
That inequalities are just only if they work to the benefit of the least advantaged members of society.

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