Rawls on Inequality, Social Segregation and Democracy

Mark Navin

Rawls on Inequality, Social Segregation and Democracy

In Ann Cudd & Sally Scholz (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century. Springer. pp. 133-145 (2014)

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Abstract	Latent in John Rawls’s discussion of envy, resentment and voluntary social segregation is a plausible (partial) explanation of two striking features of contemporary American life: (1) widespread complacency about inequality and (2) decreased political participation, especially by the least advantaged members of society.
Keywords	Rawls Segregation Equality Envy Resentment
Categories	John Rawls in 20th Century Philosophy Moral States and Processes in Normative Ethics Value Theory (categorize this paper)
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