PHIL 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Distributive Justice, Lightning, Root Mean Square
13 Jul 2017
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Perry argues that you are responsible for some outcomes. counterintuitive because other models say you are responsible for things that you are in control of. Perry receives neither e ciency or fairness as moral basis. Corrective justice theorists tend to argue that neither e ciency nor distributive justice (e. g. , fairness) can account for the way tort law operates, or how we think it should operate. The standard model: an agent negligently causes a harm, thereby wronging the victim, and the agent now has a special obligation to correct that wrong, namely, by repairing the injury. Lots of people do things that are dangerous, but it"s only people who cause injury who pay. mixed morality based on luck. A rst stab: corrective justice as annulment of wrongful losses. Coleman argues that the point of tort law is to correct for wrongful losses, i. e. , losses that result from wrongful conduct or rights infringements. not about making sure that everything is fair.
