Political Science 1020E Lecture 4: Social Justice 1
28 Sep 2015
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Political science 1020e lecture #4 social justice 1. Justice is each person getting their due (each person getting what is due to them: social justice is a newer idea that focuses on our main social and political institutions. Justice is the first virtue of political institutions: social justice is about morally judging the outcomes of institutions. Justice is a moral concept a subset of morality: with morality you have duties to yourself and to others. Justice is meant to identify our most important moral duty to other people. Justice is meant to be so important that we ought to think that if somebody doesn"t want to do the duty that justice requires, than you can be forced to do it: the state enforces what justice requires. Hayek vs. social justice: hayek (1899-1992) thought the idea of social justice to be a load of bs. Why society cannot be just or unjust: actions, intentions, and agency.
