The Idea of Social Justice

In A Brief History of Justice. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 167–195 (2011)
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idea of social justice, striking out from heights ‐ conquered by Smith, Bentham, and Kant, in an ambitious elevation   Thomas Hobbes, and radical changes ‐ way in which his contemporaries, thought about their political orders   French Revolution, principal promoters ‐ radical break with the past, apocalyptic event re‐finding polity and society of France, on new principles   Marx and language, sense of possibilities ‐ transformative change, striking   crowning achievement, Capital, A Critique of Political Economy ‐ Marx writing of “the natural laws of capitalist production”   Henry Sidgwick, leader of utilitarian tradition ‐ John Stuart Mill, and perspicuous statement of question, a new way of thinking   idea of a set of principles, distribution of rights and privileges ‐ assessing a society's institutions as a whole, idea of social justice   socialists and technocrats, like Saint‐Simon ‐ defenders of free markets, and of laissez‐faire, contempt for the ancien régime   Spencer, believing that

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