Social justice
Social justice: equitable distribution of goods, opportunities, and rights in society.
Social justice is one of the most contested political concepts of the 20th century. John Rawls (A Theory of Justice, 1971) formulated it as fairness: principles free and equal persons would accept behind a veil of ignorance. Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice, 2009) anchored it in capabilities. Iris Marion Young and Nancy Fraser expanded it to recognition. Tensions productively with economic freedom.
Articles on social justice (2)
- Cameroon Learning from Senegalese DemocracyFrom a Cameroonian vantage point, Senegal's recent alternations of power expose the fatigue of a democracy captured by a single man for more than forty years.
- Longing for a truer feelingOn the simplest things gone unseen and presence gone unvalued: a brief piece on authentic feeling, against the culture of the algorithm and appearance.
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