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Two Ideas for Treating People as Equals

University of Sydney. Two Ideas for Treating People as Equals. Thomas Pogge. Rawls’s own favored comprehensive doctrine / favored domestic conception of social justice.

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Two Ideas for Treating People as Equals

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  1. University of Sydney Two Ideas for Treating People as Equals Thomas Pogge

  2. Rawls’s own favored comprehensive doctrine / favored domestic conception of social justice

  3. Qualifying conditions for comprehensive doctrines / domestic conceptions of social justice or decency to which Rawls is willing to assign equal standing.

  4. Three such competitors that qualify by Rawls’s lights

  5. Qualifying conditions for comprehensive doctrines / domestic conceptions to which competitor 1 is willing to assign equal standing.

  6. Qualifying conditions for comprehensive doctrines / domestic conceptions to which competitor 2 is willing to assign equal standing.

  7. Qualifying conditions for comprehensive doctrines / domestic conceptions to which competitor 3 is willing to assign equal standing.

  8. UPSHOT: The qualifying competitors do not really get equal standing

  9. Evolution of US National Household Income Distribution (Top Ten Percent)

  10. Evolution of the Global Household Income Distribution at Market Exchange Rates

  11. Global Household Income Distribution 1988 RichestVentile: 42.87% Top Five Percent 42.87% Next Twenty Percent 46.63% Second Quarter 6.97% 2.37% 1.16% Data BrankoMilanovic, World Bank

  12. Global Household Income Distribution 2005 RichestVentile: 42.87% Top Five Percent 46.36% Next Twenty Percent 43.98% Second Quarter 6.74% 2.14% 0.78% Data BrankoMilanovic, World Bank

  13. Treating Citizens Fairly • Prodecural Fairness, formal: equal political participation • Procedural Fairness, material: fair value of political liberties • Substantive (Outcome) Fairness, formal: non-discrimination • Substantive (Outcome) Fairness, material — at least: In the choice between two candidate national legislative outcomes, N­1 and N2, if the representative groups that would do better with a decision in favor of N1 are (i) larger, (ii) worse off and also (iii) more strongly affected by the outcome than the representative groups that would do better with a decision in favor of N2, then the basic commitment to fairness requires that N1 be chosen over N2.

  14. Treating Human Beings Fairly • Prodecural Fairness, formal: equal political participation • Procedural Fairness, material: fair value of political liberties • Substantive (Outcome) Fairness, formal: non-discrimination • Substantive (Outcome) Fairness, material — at least: In the choice between two candidate global agreements, G­1and G2, if the representative groups that would do better with a decision in favor of G1are (i) larger, (ii) worse off and also(iii) more strongly affected by the outcome than the representative groups that would do better with a decision in favor of G2, then the basic commitment to fairness requires that G1be chosen over G2.

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