From Rawls to a Worldwide Welfare System

Abstract

Accepting impartiality as the criterion of justice the question is gone through in this text addresses how John Rawls’ conception of justice could be transferred into positive law. In this point of view Rawls’ original position is interpreted as the origin of the common purpose of maximisation of individual options in the real life, so freedom is just a synonym for exactly this certain quality of existence. Out of that perspective justice is a manageable problem of optimisation by calibrating common interests. The model of the Pareto-Optimum qualifies the task among people in the original position to concede options to each other until there are no more options to grant without curtailing another. The author seeks to show how Rawls principle of difference leads to the rules of distribution of income anonymous persons would rationally choose. Linking different discourses in philosophy, social policy and economy it is striven to outline a draft of arithmetical justice in redistribution which tries to actualise common human interests.