...decision process thus win by a process of elimination. The principles of justice are: First Principle Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. [Liberty...

...society and that he believes that people in such an original position would agree upon. The first is that "each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all" (Rawls, 1971,...

...roles available. Rawls theorizes that his negotiators would agree to the two principles of justice: 1. "Each person is to have an equal right to the most...liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others"; 2. "Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are: a. to the greatest benefit...

...twentieth century, placed liberty at the core of his theory of justice. In a just society, Rawls says, "each person is to have an equal right to the most...liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others." 2 The most powerful political slogans convey the same message: "Give me liberty or give me death,"...

...2002), S. 1 68. 237 Vgl. von Hayek ( 1 98 1 ), S. 1 1 1 ff. 231 Vgl. von Hayek (1991), S. 1 13. ,f irst: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a sirailar liberty for others."239 So kommt der Wunsch nach einer gleichen Mindestausstattung von Chancen...

...version of the first principle, more modest than the original version, which guaranteed every person "an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others." Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 60. 52. Rawls, Justice as Fairness, 45. See id., 104, 112-13; Freeman,...

...particularly preoccupied with what he calls the Difference Principle and the Principle of Equal Opportunity: Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both: (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged, consistent with the just savings principle, and (b)...

...generic human beings. Rawls argues that such individuals would agree to two rules: 1) Each person should have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar basic liberty for others. 2) Social and economic inequalities should be arranged so that they are both...

...Thinking About Justice," 246. 10. Ibid., 248. 11. Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, 91, 102-3. 12. "Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged and (b) attached to offices and positions open to all...

...principle, the difference principle, on which economists have focussed in particular, requires that social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society and attached to offices and positions...