PP110 Lecture Notes - Tomato Juice
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This is what we would call an unjust society. It is understood that in fact most societies are to some degree unjust in this way. Consequently, members of such a society, ex- canada, see a need to rectify the injustice, making their society fairer. In order 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 will begin by talking about 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. Robert nozik (1938-2002) offers a libertarian conception of justice that resists this way of Nozick suggested, as a critique of rawls and utilitarianism, that the sacrosanctity of life made property rights non-negotiable, such that an individual"s personal liberty made state policies of redistribution illegitimate.
