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  2. Principle - Wikipedia

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    A principle represents values that orient and rule the conduct of persons in a particular society. To "act on principle" is to act in accordance with one's moral ideals. [7] Principles are absorbed in childhood through a process of socialization. There is a presumption of liberty of individuals that is restrained.

  3. Justice as Fairness - Wikipedia

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    The principle is part of justice that established distributive justice.Rawls awards the fair equality of opportunity principle lexical priority over the difference principle: Society cannot adjust inequality to maximize the proportion of those who are most vulnerable without providing positions and the opportunities that are necessary for the worse-off to achieve them.

  4. A Theory of Justice - Wikipedia

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    Part (a) of the second principle is referred to as the difference principle while part (b) is referred to as the equal opportunity principle. [1] Rawls orders the principles of justice lexically, as follows: 1, 2b, 2a. [4] The greatest equal liberty principle takes priority, followed by the equal opportunity principle and finally the difference ...

  5. Fundamental justice - Wikipedia

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    In Canadian and New Zealand law, fundamental justice is the fairness underlying the administration of justice and its operation. The principles of fundamental justice are specific legal principles that command "significant societal consensus" as "fundamental to the way in which the legal system ought fairly to operate", per R v Malmo-Levine. [1]

  6. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Of fundamental importance to the development of the idea of natural rights was the emergence of the idea of natural human equality. As the historian A.J. Carlyle notes: "There is no change in political theory so startling in its completeness as the change from the theory of Aristotle to the later philosophical view represented by Cicero and ...

  7. Distributive justice - Wikipedia

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    The second principle, the difference principle, addresses how the arrangement of social and economic inequalities, and thus the just distribution should look. Firstly, Rawls argues that such distribution should be based on a reasonable expectation of advantage for all, but also to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged in society.

  8. First principle - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. First principles in philosophy are from first cause [1] attitudes and taught by Aristotelians, and nuanced versions of first principles are referred to as postulates by Kantians. [2]

  9. Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental ...

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    The Preamble of the Constitution of India – India declaring itself as a country. The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Duties are sections of the Constitution of India that prescribe the fundamental obligations of the states to its citizens and the duties and the rights of the citizens to the State. These sections are considered vital elements of the ...