Criteria of Justice: Desert,Needs and Equality |
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Authors: | Norman Richard |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK |
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Abstract: | The conception of social justice as equality is defended in this paper by examining what may appear to be two inegalitarian conceptions of justice, as distribution according to desert and as distribution according to need. It is argued that claims of just entitlement arise within a context of reciprocal co-operation for mutual benefit. Within such a context there are special cases where it can be said that those who contribute more deserve more, and that those who need more should get more, but those claims themselves presuppose a norm of equal contribution and equal benefit. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | compensation contribution co-operation desert equality justice need reciprocity reward |
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