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Daniel Klein on Adam Smith's Justice

The Great Antidote

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The Most Sacramental Laws of Justice

Justice is the restraint from harming or injuring others. And injustice is the act of making others worse off. Oner: Can you unpack that definition of justice and explain what is meant by a negative virtue? In smith, he puts it as abstaining from what is another's which is a classic formulation. Another way to put it is not messing with other people's tuff. So those things are what he means when he talks about justice.

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