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C/L/388. Evaluate whether the use of positive discrimination in public sector organizations is ever ethically legitimate

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2009
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The paper examines the ethics of positive discrimination reviewing the liberal debate about positive discrimination, linking it to different understandings of justice, equality and the individual/group. References are made to the works of Bentham, Rawls and Kant to provide different understandings of the ethical legitimacy of positive discrimination.

 

KEYWORDS: Affirmative Action, Positive Discrimination, Ethics, Rawls, Kant, Bentham,

 
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