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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._____________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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John Rawls on Aristocracy - Dictionary of Arguments
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. >Equality/Politics, >Inequalities, >Justice, >Injustice. However, the advantages of the gifted are limited in a way that the less well-off benefit. The aristocratic ideal is applied to a (at least legally) open system. The situation of the better-offs is seen as only fair, however, that if the better-offs were to have less, the poorer ones would also achieve less as a result(1). Rawls: the system of natural aristocracy is unstable, like that of liberal equality. I 75 Solution/Rawls: we need democratic equality in order to be able to deal with instabilities. >Democracy, >Society. 1. See G. Santayana, Reason and Society, New York, 1905, pp.109f._____________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. |
Rawl I J. Rawls A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005 |
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