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Jacob Levy — How Should Liberals Think of Social Injustice?

The Curious Task

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The Impetus to Charge a Complicated Amorphous Society With a Crime

Hayek is particularly concerned to rule out the conclusion that inequality of resources counts as just. He's going to Jerry Reagan argument about justice to get there, ruling out all of those extra things from the idea of justice. If we appropriately limit our language of justice to the judgment of individual actions under the rules of just conduct, then there's just a gap that can't be bridged. We can no longer describe social outcomes using that normal language.

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