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    It is not the case that Fair Equality of Opportunity (FEO) has priority over the difference principle

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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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    • 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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