Links tagged with “justice”
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Malcolm Bull reviews ‘On Global Justice’ by Mathias Risse · LRB 21 February 2013
I love reading things like this, here about Risse’s Rawls-influenced theories, but also I find them very, very hard to concentrate on. (Subscribers only)
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Justice with Michael Sandel - Online Harvard Course Exploring Justice, Equality, Democracy, and Citizenship
Sounds great, although it’s hard to tell if this is a simplified or different version of the actual Harvard course outlined at http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/about.html (via NYRB)
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A New Theory of Justice by Samuel Freeman | The New York Review of Books
Starts with a good summary of John Rawls’ ‘A Theory of Justice’, then Amartya Sen’s critique of that, then the article’s author, Samuel Freeman’s, critique of that. But subscribers only, booo.
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Communists and Nazis: Just as Evil? | The New York Review of Books
Interesting comparison of the relative morality of communism and nazism, and the decisions around WWII. (Subscribers only.)
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The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans
Ethics, identity, violence, justice. “Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity — ethnic, racial, religious — rather than to appeals based on the rational forms — economic above all?”
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The New York Review of Books: Progressive but Not Liberal
I love stuff like this - moralism, justice, etc. But I can rarely concentrate enough to understand it fully. Subscribers only.