Humanities Core: Winter 2007

Rawls Study Questions

p. 137—How does a society, seen as a “cooperative venture for mutual advantage,” involve both “conflict” and “identity” of interests?

p. 137—How does utilitarianism treat a society as a single person?

p. 138—What is the “original position” and the “veil of ignorance”?

p. 139—What are the two principles of justice?

p. 139—Why is the subject of justice “the main institutions of the social system and their arrangement”?

p. 140—What is Pareto’s criterion of efficiency?

p. 142—Are justice and efficiency the same thing?

p. 142—How does Rawls modify the second principle?

p. 143—Does Rawls allow incentives such as greater pay in order to make an economy more efficient?