Philosophy / Unit 8 Philosophy 0336 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Distributive Justice
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The idea
Distributive justice asks how society's benefits and burdens—income, opportunity, care, work—should be shared out among members, and by what standard.
In practice
Equality, need, effort, contribution, market outcome: five standards, five different maps of who gets what, each with a constituency.
Your place on the trail
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