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Comment in 150 words·: ‘Difference Principle’ in Rawls’ Theory of Justice.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 10 marks
  • Justice

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The difference principle is clause (a) of John Rawls's second principle in A Theory of Justice (1971): social and economic inequalities must be "to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged, consistent with the just savings principle". It governs chiefly income and wealth. It does not demand equality; it demands that every inequality justify itself…

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