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Nozick and Rawls Theories | Ethics Paper

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University of Bath

   

Political Theory (PL20970)

   

Added on  2020-03-07

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This paper evaluates the benefits of housing towers in place of slums with support from the theories of Nozick and Rawl. Rawls’s theory is related to the distributive theory of justice, which regards society as a system in which individuals cooperate with each other to gain a mutual advantage.

Nozick and Rawls Theories | Ethics Paper

   

University of Bath

   

Political Theory (PL20970)

   Added on 2020-03-07

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1ETHICS ‘Slumming it’ is a documentary presented by Kevin McCloud which gave audience theview of the most extreme urban environment in Dharavi, Mumbai. To analyze the good and badthings of living in the densely populated place on earth, Kevin decides to eat and work there toanalyse the prospects of living there. Kevin also presents the man who plans redevelop the entireDharavi and make place for housing towers, schools and parks for residential purpose(Slumming It – DocuWiki, 2017).. This paper evaluates the benefits of housing towers in placeof slums with support from the theories of Nozick and Rawls. John Rawls’s theory is related to the distributive theory of justice, which regards societyas a system in which individuals cooperate with each other to gain mutual advantage. This isassociated with many conflicts too as interest of different individuals or certain groups differfrom one another. According to the principle of justice, social cooperation is dependent onbalanced division of benefits and burdens. Rawl’s theory proposed two principles of justice suchas the political justice and social justice to guarantee a morally acceptable society. The firstprinciple support each person to have equal right to total social system, whereas the secondprinciple supports managements of social and economic equalities to providing fair conditions ofopportunity to all (John, 2014). Considering this principle to describe the plans to replaceDharavi with housing complex, it can be said that transforming Dharavi will be an unjustifiedaction because this will come at cost of closing down thousands of tiny industries. This will takeaway homes and livelihood of many people and disrupt the social principle of social fairopportunity for all in society. Rawls theory visualizes original position, which means animpartial view of society to promote justice. Rawl introduces a veil of ignorance where people inthe social world can reside in the original position (Corlett, 2016). However, this is not possible
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