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Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference
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Samuel Freeman
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February 11, 2016
Abstract
John Rawls says: “The main problem of distributive justice is the choice of a social system.” Property-owning democracy is the social system that Rawls thought best realized the requirements of his principles of justice. This article discusses Rawls’s conception of property-owning democracy and how it is related to his difference principle. I explain why Rawls thought that welfare-state capitalism could not fulfill his principles: it is mainly because of the connection he perceived between capitalism and utilitarianism.
Published Online: 2016-02-11
Published in Print: 2013-05-01
© 2013 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents
- Editorial
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference
- The Property-Owning Democracy vesus the Welfare State
- Thoughts on Arrangements of Property Rights in Productive Assets
- Comment on John E. Roemer
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Priority of Liberty
- Comment on Gavin Kerr
- The Concept of Property in Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Tilo Wesche
- The Place of the Market in a Rawlsian Economy
- Between Sentimentalism and Instrumentalism. The Societal Role of Work in John Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy and Its Bearing upon Basic Income
- Fraternal Society in Rawls’ Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Andrew Walton
- Background Justice over Time: Property-Owning Democracy versus a Realistically Utopian Welfare State
- Comment on Michael Schefczyk
- Investing for a Property-Owning Democracy? Towards a Philosophical Analysis of Investment Practices
- Constitutionalizing Property-Owning Democracy
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Circumstances of Politics
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