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Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983)

Michael Walzer · c. 1983

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  1. Human society is a distributive community.
  2. No social good x should be distributed to men and women who possess some other good y merely because they possess y and without regard to the meaning of x.
  3. Justice is relative to social meanings.
  4. Every substantive account of distributive justice is a local account.
  5. The aim of political egalitarianism is a society free from domination.

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