The Principle of Difference Beyond Mere Compensation

• Main Authors: José Claudio Monteiro de Brito Filho, Homero Lamarão Neto
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) 2016-12-01
• Series: Revista de Formas Consensuais de Solução de Conflitos
• Subjects: Equilíbrio Reflexivo; Justiça; Liberalismo; Princípios; Racionalidade.
• Online Access: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistasolucoesconflitos/article/view/1570

The article aims to analyze the layout of the difference principle in the theory of John Rawlsaiming to demonstrate the ability to interpret its broadest sense as a minimum standard of security appropriate to individual needs. Although liberalism principles not expressly conceives the creation of a standard of social welfare, the interpretation of the principle of difference can provide the idea that rational individuals in reflective equilibrium, there would celebrate agreements devoid of the minimum connotation of distributive justice, widely when you are in play access to scarce goods in a society conceived as a system of cooperation.