Social and Political Philosophy

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Social and Political Philosophy
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Justice and equality are two different concepts that go hand in hand. Equality is the way or
the method of treating each and every individual as equal. In other words, it can be termed as the
method of treating all the people without any kinds of biasness or partiality1. However this is not
sufficient for defining justice. Justice is the method by which they can be the initiation of a
consistency or starting an embodiment of the fairness within the society2.The distribution of
wealth or any other good must be such that each and every individual of the society is getting
benefitted from it. It is evident that although social cooperation is more or ,less positive and it
helps in bringing about a sense of justice. It must be noted in this context that As per the
Kantian theory, people also tend to make contradictory claims on one another. They can
also hold opposing views and thoughts about religion, morality, philosophy and others3.
Thus while distributing of goods in Canada, the Government and the other officials have to
remember that it is a land of diversity. Thus the kinds of goods that they are distributing from
one particular group might not hurt the emotions or the sentiments of people belonging to any
group4.
The Kantian theory says that, there are mainly two important principle of justice5. It is based
on these two principles that the Government must take up all the essential decisions of
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distribution of goods. The first principle says that each and every person must have the equal
and the complete right to the attaining of the basic liberties6. On the other hand the other
principle says that the inequalities that often exist in the society are too meet two different
condition, They are
 The inequalities must be to the greatest expected benefit or advantage of the least
advantages
 Attached to the offices and the positions open to all under the conditions of the fair
opportunity however it can be said that these two given conditions are never seen to go
hand in hand in the society.
There are several people who suffer due to that lack of the equal distribution of wealth. It has
been seen that the distribution of goods have not been proper in Canada. There has been a kind
of inequality in the distribution of the wealth. There has been a rise in the improper or unequal
distribution of goods and wealth from 45 to 47 percent. Thus there is naturally a chance that the
people who are getting less amount of money will have several conflicting views and will not be
happy. They will naturally ask for some kinds of improvements in their conditions. At the same
time, the inequalities can only be allowed as long as they are being able to improve the situation
of some of the people.
Redistribution and the property rights are also some of the most important aspects that must
be taken into consideration while the goods are being distributed. Redistribution is indeed one of
the serious matters. The aspect of taxation from the earning of the labors is liked by some while
6 Grainger, Corbett A., and Christopher Costello. "Distributional effects of the transition to
property rights for a common-pool resource." Marine Resource Economics 31.1 (2016): 1-26.