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Distributive justice
Every society divides up income, wealth, opportunities and burdens somehow. Distributive justice asks what a fair division looks like, and the two most influential modern answers, from John Rawls and Robert Nozick, point in opposite directions.
In this topic
- Who gets what, and why?
- Candidate principles
- Rawls: justice as fairness
- Rawls's two principles
- Worked example: three societies
- Objections to Rawls
- Nozick: entitlement theory
- Worked example: the basketball star
- Objections to Nozick
- Capabilities and luck
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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