Part II - Distributive Justice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
Summary
Arguably, the best way of grasping the notion of justice is to understand it in a historical context. Part II offers a quasi-historical narrative about how the notion of justice identifies a genuinely human concern independently of cultural context. Over time, that concern has been captured by a number of notions of justice that have developed into the one we should take ourselves as having now, with the properties of Globality, Complexity, Stringency, and Reasonableness. Our contemporary notion is informed and fixed by major philosophical moves in the past to advance inquiry. These milestones I call points of orientation about justice. I take a global stance, but I develop it in a way that recognizes that we find ourselves with a global culture that to a large extent results from Western expansionism. Accordingly, Part II is organized around Western reflection on justice and reaches out from there.
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- On JusticePhilosophy, History, Foundations, pp. 123 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020