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preference for Liberal egalitarian reasons: we think that to give the priority
to the present will permit to respect the principle of equal liberty for all
in an intergenerational context by reducing the impact of social origin. It
appears necessary to realize social justice now to allow just allocation of
resources and to not reproduce inequalities in time. In order to achieve
such an objective, we have to construct institutions which guarantee access
for all individuals to social primary goods. But the question is now to determine
which shape and content those institutions should have in order to
assure social justice.
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