The Importance of Social Justice in Academic Political Theory

The most widespread and familiar use of social justice as a phrase or concept in academic political theory is as a synonym for something like distributive justice. Hayek's view is that it is neither just nor unjust, it is the wrong kind of thing to be just or unjust. He was mainly engaging with articles that Rawls had written in the 60s. And so he didn't understand how far Rawls had moved in the direction of The theory of society wideributive justice. In the 2010s roughly when when classical liberal and libertarian thinkers on the left side of that spectrum started working in the fields that came to be referred to as either bleeding heart libertarianism or libertarianism.