GOVT1641 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Robert Nozick, Michael J. Sandel, Distributive Justice

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT1641
• Professor: Stewart Jackson

Document Summary

Today"s basic ways to think about justice. As the proper way to distribute rights and goods. As the bases for that distribution: recognition of each other. As the process for making decisions about distributions and impacts: procedural justice. As the capabilities necessary for us to construct a life we choose for ourselves. Michael sandel 3 ways to ground distributional justice. Based on classic liberal idea: individual are the best judge of their life. How societies should distribute resources in society. If there is a good agreement at one time, whatever comes after is just. Anything that comes out of just holdings, exchanges and transfers are just. Doesn"t matter what it looks like now. From each as they choose, to each as they are as they are chosen. Let people do what they want and the goods will flow in that direction. Focus on the correctness of individual actions not outcomes.