David Schmidtz's "ELEMENTS OF JUSTICE": What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due, but what that means in practice depends on context. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, thus, is a constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and unity, but the integrity of justice is limited, in a way that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of a building. A theory of justice is a map of that neighborhood.
Acknowledgements
PART 1 WHAT IS JUSTICE?
1 The Neighborhood of Justice
2 The Basic Concept
3 A Variety of Contestants
4 Contextual Functionalism
5 What Is Theory?
PART 2 HOW TO DESERVE
6 Desert
7 What Did I Do to Deserve This?
8 Deserving a Chance
9 Deserving and Earning
10 Grounding Desert
11 Desert as Institutional Artifact
12 The Limits of Desert
PART 3 HOW TO RECIPROCATE
13 Reciprocity
14 What Is Reciprocity?
15 Varieties of Reciprocity
16 Debts to Society arid Double Counting
17 The Limits of Reciprocity
PART 4 EQUAL RESPECT AND EQUAL SHARES
18 Equality
19 Does Equal Treatment Imply Equal Shares?
20 What Is Equality for?
21 Equal Pay for Equal Work
22 Equality and Opportunity
23 On the Utility of Equal Shares
24 The Limits of Equality
PART 5 MEDITATIONS ON NEED
25 Need
26 Hierarchies of Need
27 Need as a Distributive Principle
28 Beyond the Numbers
29 What Do We Need?
PART 6 THE RIGHT TO DISTRIBUTE
30 Intellectual Debts
31 Rawls
32 Nozick
33 Rectification
34 Two Kinds of Arbitrary
35 Proceduralversus Distributive Justice
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