Social justice: between equality of opportunities and equality of positions
Keywords:
justice, equality, social contractAbstract
Francois Dubet points in “Rethinking social justice” that the equality among positions and equality of opportunities are two large pillars for the definition of social justice in contemporary thought. They both share the aim to solve or diminish the grounding contradiction between the equality of individuals and social inequalities in nowadays democratic societies. However, according to Dubet, both definitions cannot live in the same dimension because of their antagonism. The aim of this paper is to analyze this antagonism, to present Dubet’s equality of positions priority and to assess the criticism of social justice as equality of opportunities in certain aspects of John Rawls’ theory.
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