Accommodating the plural nature of disadvantage in Rawls' framework of justice as fairness

• Main Author: Tan, Stefanie Kai Ying
• Other Authors: Lim Chong Ming
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165454
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The paper’s main aim is to show that a plural nature of disadvantage can be fitted into John Rawls’ framework of justice as fairness. This is an interesting consideration because Rawls has been criticized for leaving out certain real-world disadvantages from the purview of justice as fairness. If a...