PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cardinal Virtues, Robert Nozick, Tomato Juice
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If in a community there are a few members who hold most of the wealth and positions of power while the remaining members have next-to-nothing it"s commonly assumed that there"s an unfair distribution of wealth and opportunity. It"s understood that in fact most societies are to some degree unjust in this way. Consequently, members of such a society, e. g. , canada, see a need to rectify the injustice, make their society fairer. In order either to build a just society or rectify an unjust one we first need to determine what counts as a just society as such. Therefore, we need a comprehensive theory of justice. Here we"ll begin by talking about the economic distribution of wealth. Our concern more generally is with quality of life, but today with economic wealth comes power and influence which are closely related to quality of life of course. Offers a libertarian conception of justice, that resists this way of seeing things.
