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Inequity/Iniquity: Card on Balancing Injustice and Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Adam Morton
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Abstract

Card argues that we should not give injustice priority over evil. I agree. But I think Card sets us up for some difficult balances, for example of small evils against middle-sized injustices. I suggest some ways of staying off the tightrope.

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Symposium
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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , Fall 2004 , pp. 199 - 203
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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