Essays about: "morally arbitrary contingencies"

Found 1 essay containing the words morally arbitrary contingencies.

  1. 1. A Complementary Developmental View on Morally Arbitrary Contingencies in Rawls’s Theory of Justice

    University essay from Institutionen för religion och kultur

    Author : Olesya Vallin; [2007]
    Keywords : Rawls; natural lottery; morally arbitrary contingencies; global justice; egalitarian theory; moral philosophy; Dworkin; Kohlberg;

    Abstract : The paper explores theoretical shortcomings in the egalitarian theory by John Rawls and provides a complementary view on the problem of morally arbitrary contingencies. The conception of natural lottery, which Rawls presents to signify the starting range of morally arbitrary inequalities, falls short in philosophical grounding. READ MORE