PHILOS 2G03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Iris Marion Young, Michael Walzer, Ssion
25 May 2019
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Iris marion young: justice and the politics of. In the context of protests, social justice means the elimination of institutionalized domination and oppression. Distributive paradigm: philosophical theories of justice tend to restrict the meaning of social justice to the morally proper distribution of benefits and burdens among society"s members. Tends to focus thinking about social justice on the allocation of material goods (resources, income, wealth) Ignores the social structure and institutional context that often help determine distributive patterns. When metaphorically extended to nonmaterial social goods (power, opportunity), the concept of distribution represents them as though they were status things, instead of a function of social relations and processes. Desire to displace talk of justice regarding people primarily as consumers of goods to one that includes actions, decisions. The concepts of domination and oppression should be the starting point for a conception of social justice. Paradigm: a configuration of elements and practices which define an inquiry.
