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    Rawls's distributive justice framework must be expanded t... — Carmelics
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    Rawls's distributive justice framework must be expanded to include caring considerations as part of the basic structure of society

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    • 1.Human dependency is a fundamental feature of human life that Rawlsian theory does not adequately address
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    • 2.A complete theory of distributive justice must account for the needs and labor arising from human dependency
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    • 1.Rawls's original position already accommodates dependency by representing parties who know they may be among the least advantaged members of society.
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    • 2.The difference principle, properly applied, generates obligations to support caregiving institutions without requiring a categorical revision of the basic structure.
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    • 3.Expanding the basic structure to include caring relations risks collapsing the public/private distinction that makes liberal rights coherent and enforceable.
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    • 1.Susan Okin's own feminist Rawlsianism demonstrates that gender-just caring arrangements can be derived from the original position without altering Rawls's foundational architecture.
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    • 2.If dependency needs generate structural revisions, then every morally significant human vulnerability would demand its own categorical inclusion, making the basic structure indeterminate.
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    Asha Bhandary (2020) proposes an integrative approach, enlargening the Rawlsian distributive justice theory with liberal dependency care. Taking into account Eva Feder Kittay’s (2019, 1998) emphasis on human dependency, Bhandary argues that Rawls’s framework must be expanded to include caring considerations as part of the basic structure of society. To address feminist critiques, she adds that boys must be taught the value of care work and voluntary participation in it. Bhandary develops an arro
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