Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pareto Efficiency, Invisible Hand, Externality
3 Mar 2016
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Concept- the idea everyone can agree on, central idea *many conceptions within a concepy. Justice- is about everyone getting what is due to them. Social justice- about morally judging the distributive outcome. Justice is different from charity, while charity is something that is morally good for you to do, it is not something that you can not be forced to do. Justice on the other hand is supposed to be so important, that we ought to think that if someone does not want to do their duty then they can be forced to do so by the state. He said society is not the kind of thing that can just or unjust. People can act justly or unjustly but nobody intends the distribution of benefits of social cooperation is just or unjust. Society is not an agent so it cant be just or unjust. Redistributing wealth in the name of social justice is meaningless; liberty,
