Rawl’s difference Principle.

Assignment Topic:

State clearly Rawls’s difference principle.  How are social and economic inequalities permissible under this principle? Is the difference principle a utilitarian principle or a “Robin Hood” principle?  If it is not, what does the principle mean for the parties entering into social cooperation?  How does Rawls justify the position that people with superior talents or natural assets should be concerned about raising the prospects of everyone, especially the least advantaged?  How should we view the distribution of natural talents, according to Rawls?  And what is the idea of common asset?  And how is the idea of common asset related to his understanding of desert?  Does he think people deserve their greater natural talents?  If not, why not? How is desert related to justice, on Rawls’s understanding? How do libertarians like Robert Nozick argue against Rawls’s idea of desert?  Explain and discuss.