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Daniel Klein on Adam Smith's Justice

The Great Antidote

CHAPTER

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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