Learning to Live More Equitably.
Although seventeenth‐century societies fell far short of contemporary standards of justice, early modern philosophers thought deeply about what social justice consists in. At a theoretical level, they aimed to articulate distributive principles. At a practical level, they asked what qualities we nee...
| Publicado en: | Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 29 - 51 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2023
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