Abstract: By the term justice in this chapter I shall mean both legal justice and distributive justice. Legal justice refers to the existence of law and its implementation by a publicly recognized set of institutions like law courts and the police. Distributive justice refers to a quite wider sphere, namely the set of arrangements a society may have which ensures a publicly accepted fair allocation of resources and job positions. The two meanings of justice are not unconnected but questions of distributive justice tend now to arouse the greater controversy in political philosophy. Whereas most contemporary western political philosophers agree that some mechanism to ensure the effectiveness of procedural justice is necessary in a society,1 many dispute that a means has to be found to ensure that some form of distributive justice is attained. The philosophy of the new right in particular focuses on demonstrating that attempts at redistributing income and wealth through the state are likely to have deleterious rather than positive effects.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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