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    Fair Equality of Opportunity (FEO) has priority over the ... — Carmelics
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    Fair Equality of Opportunity (FEO) has priority over the difference principle

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    • 1.Self-realization has a crucial place in the hierarchy of goods on the Kantian interpretation of Rawls' principles
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    • 2.FEO regulates goods that are more central to the exercise of our moral powers and our highest order interests
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    • 1.Rawls' difference principle directly governs the material conditions that make any meaningful exercise of moral powers possible for the least advantaged.
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    • 2.A lexical priority of FEO over the difference principle can leave the worst-off in poverty while formally equal opportunities remain inaccessible due to material deprivation.
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    • 3.Norman Daniels and Elizabeth Anderson argue that severe economic inequality structurally undermines FEO itself, collapsing the supposed lexical distinction.
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    • 1.G.A. Cohen's critique establishes that Rawlsian institutional priority rules obscure how background economic inequalities pervade the social structure prior to any FEO mechanism.
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    • 2.If unjust economic distributions precede and shape competitive opportunity structures, then prioritizing FEO over redistribution treats a downstream symptom rather than the upstream cause of injustice.
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    On her view, the social bases of self-respect require the robust anti-discrimination principle that FEO provides. In defense of Rawls on the second objection, Robert Taylor (2004) has attempted to show that self-realization has a crucial place in the hierarchy of goods on the Kantian interpretation of Rawls’ principles. He claims that FEO therefore has priority over the difference principle because it regulates goods that are more central to the exercise of our moral powers and our highest order
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