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Justice: Justice can be understood as the fair and impartial treatment of all people. It is often associated with the law. Some key elements are fairnes, equality, proportionality, accountability. See also Law, Rights, Equality, Impartiality._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hillel Steiner on Justice - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 127 Justice/Hillel Steiner/Gaus/Mack: Steiner's conception of liberty, rights and the compossibility requirement supports his entitlement account of justice. >Freedom/Steiner. Justice involves a division of the world into various domains, each person possessing rights over some of it, this defining his sphere of freedom. Since, Steiner insists, rights protect our ability to choose, we are free (while alive) to transfer our holdings to others; the justice of a system of holdings will thus crucially depend on its history - whether it has been brought about by a series of legitimate, non-exploitative, choices. >Property/Hillel Steiner. GausVsSteiner, Hillel: Consider: (1) if justice involves treating equally those who are in relevant respects equal; (>Property/Steiner) and (2') because of thorough-going scepticism about public reasons, it cannot be shown that people are equal in any relevant way; then (3') justice doesn't demand treating everyone Gaus I 128 equally. 1. Steiner, Hillel (1994) An Essay on Rights. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Mack, Eric and Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. „Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition.“ In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Steiner, Hillel Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |