Michael Walzer
Political theorist, born in 1935, whose Spheres of Justice (1983) argued that different social goods must be distributed by different principles, set by what each good means in a community.
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Their wordsHuman society is a distributive community.
↗Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983)archive.org All 5 from this book
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Our reading
No good should go to people just because they hold some other good, without regard to its meaning
Their wordsNo 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.
↗Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983)archive.org All 5 from this book
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Our reading
Their wordsJustice is relative to social meanings.
↗Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983)archive.org All 5 from this book
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Their wordsEvery substantive account of distributive justice is a local account.
↗Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983)archive.org All 5 from this book
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Their wordsThe aim of political egalitarianism is a society free from domination.
↗Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983)archive.org All 5 from this book