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Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of social justice leads to ‘egalitarian justice’ as compared to Rawls’ ‘justice as fairness’ which aims at the notion of ‘pure procedural justice’. Comment.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • Justice

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John Rawls asks what fair terms free and equal persons would choose; B. R. Ambedkar begins from a society that contained no free and equal persons, only graded inequality. The statement is right about their premises and methods, but it overstates the opposition in their aims.

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  • Rawls: pure procedural justice
  • Ambedkar: egalitarian justice
  • Where the contrast holds
  • Where it is overdrawn
  • Indian application
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