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Aristocracy: The concept of aristocracy refers to a privileged, often hereditary, elite that holds significant power or influence within a social or political system.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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George Santayana on Aristocracy - Dictionary of Arguments

Rawls I 74
Aristocracy/society/freedom/justice/efficiency/Santayana/Rawls: from the point of view of the Natural Aristocracy, no attempt is made to correct accidental social inequalities other than what is demanded of equal opportunities. However, the advantages of the gifted are limited to the less well-off. The aristocratic ideal is applied to a (at least legally) open system. The situation of the better-offs is seen only as fair that if the better-offs were to have less, the poorer ones would also be able to achieve less as a result. (1)
Rawls: the system of natural aristocracy is unstable, like that of liberal equality.
>Equal opportunities
, >Equality, >Inequalities, >Injustice.
I 75
Solution/Rawls: we need democratic equality in order to be able to deal with instabilities.
>Difference priniciple.

1. See G. Santayana, Reason in Society, (New York, 1905) pp. 109f.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Santay I
George Santayana
Reason in Society New York 1962

Rawl I
J. Rawls
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005


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