Legitimacy of Incentives in John Rawls’s Egalitarian Liberalism
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Rawls, Egalitarianism, Principles of Justice, Incentives, Democracy, SolidarityAbstract
In the following paper we seek to offer a critique to the so called difference principle in Rawlsian theory. This principle has been subjected to criticisms as much of the left as from the right, discussion that we’ll address in this text from the contrast between Nozick’s and G.A. Cohen’s standpoints, to pick up from there the elements that will allow us to problematize the underlying motivational assumptions of a liberal democracy. This text aims at proposing an alternative theoretical horizon to that of Rawls, whose language, deliberately or not, has a predominant role in Chilean society’s nowadays discussions. The question for the legitimacy of incentives is, in the end, the question for the legitimacy of strategic attitudes in a social compact of which institutions are the reflection.
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