PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Wilt Chamberlain, Egalitarianism, Distributive Justice
20 Mar 2014
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Initial acquisition of property: transfers are consensual (non-coercive) if you"re entitled to it, no one can take it away. Kant"s injunction: treat people always as ends, never merely as means: moral base as everything else. Dworkin rights as trumps : cannot infringe on others" rights. 1. 3 even rights-consequentialism ruled out ( u. of rights ) because it treats some as mere means rather than ends. Crucial: self-ownership: people own themselves (following locke) Rectificatory justice (aristotle: wilt chamberlain example (patterned theory) justice unpatterened. If: initial acquisition is just, (and) transfers are non-coercive, the transfers are just. Therefore, whatever pattern emerges from a free market (and new ones constantly emerge) is just: 168. Patterned principles of distributive justice necessitate redistributive activities. The likelihood is small that any actual freely-arrived-at set of holdings fit a given pattern; and the likelihood is not that it will continue to fit the pattern as people exchange and give.
