March 31, 2011
Two Concepts of Justice
When I look at the way people talk about justice, I see that they tend to fall into two broad camps: 1. Justice as a Set of Ideals: …
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March 31, 2011
Discerning Desert
Since my last post on the subject, Bryan Caplan has put up two very interesting posts over at EconLog about the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor. The issue…
March 30, 2011
What is Social Justice?
In a few of my early posts on this blog, I claimed that libertarianism is compatible with a commitment to some kind of social justice. But I was deliberately vague about just…
March 29, 2011
Just Because It’s Just Doesn’t Mean It’s Just to Enforce It.
SOME CONCEPTUAL DISTINCTIONS You’ve read some of us (in particular, Matt and me) sometimes claiming that certain things are required by justice. A few of our readers have then complained…
March 29, 2011
Other Moral Values (Responses to my 3/15 post, Part IV)
This is the fourth and last post that attempts to respond to comments on my 3/15 post Some Values Matter More Than Others And Are Ignored Anyway. A reader (Mike…
March 24, 2011
Responsibility (Responses to my 3/15 post, Part II)
This is the second post that attempts to respond to comments on my 3/15 post Some Values Matter More Than Others And Are Ignored Anyway. The third and fourth posts…