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Explain how Rawls used the liberal and egalitarian perspective to develop his theory of justice.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 15 marks
  • Justice

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For John Rawls, distributive justice concerns "the way in which the major social institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation" (A Theory of Justice, 1971, §2). Rather than choose between liberty and equality, he built liberal freedoms into an egalitarian distributive scheme.

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  • The liberal strand: what is distributed, and to whom
  • The egalitarian strand: why shares must be corrected
  • From liberal to democratic equality (TJ §12)
  • The institutional scheme
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  • Indian anchor
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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