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Analyse John Rawls justification of discrimination to achieve the goals of justice.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Justice

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"Discrimination" here means justified differential treatment: unequal shares and compensatory measures that favour the disadvantaged. For John Rawls these are neither charity nor group privilege but part of democratic equality, derived from principles chosen behind the veil of ignorance — which also fence them in.

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