
Jacob Levy — How Should Liberals Think of Social Injustice?
The Curious Task
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The Importance of Thinking About Injustice
We want to be constantly moving back and forth between our awareness of harms and wrongs and misdeeds in the world, and our theories about what counts as injustices we can do something about. We don't want to start things off with huge social macro theories of justice as being the defining moral facts about how we normally engage with the world. Theory of injustice is prior to and more fundamental than thinking about justice. And can still give us grounds for normative criticism and correction. It's microaggressions, small scale,. dignitary arms to other people. That might be too small to be remediable or action taken. But they are not right in the sense of individual rights or
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