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Plato
Plato: justice as harmony
The Republic: The proper harmonious relationships between the people and
the city
Everybody has certain responsibilities,
A just man: just the right place doing his best giving the precise equivalent of
what he has received
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Reciprocity framing of justice
Most basic form of justice-influenced every subsequent ethics
philosopher
Criticisms:
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Does not determine who assigns the roles and responsibilities
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If I run a donut shop and I see someone getting mugged, plato holds
that I should NOT take action
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
System of consequences derive from any action of choice, and bad choices
deserve punishment
Retributive Justice: redistribute harms and goods based on actions and
what is most fair
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Vs Neoliberalism: you are responsible for the consequences of your
own life-bootstraps
Distributive Justice
Justice as Utilitarianism
Marxism
Consequentialism
Consequentialism: the rightness of our actions determine their justness
Utilitarianism
Machiavellian
Rule Util-we formulate the rules our society is based on with empirical rules
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Freedom of speech is formulated based on rules of which breaking
them is bad (Deon) but is also codified because violating FoS is empirically
bad
Betham and Peter Singer b/c everything living has pain receptors
Henry Giroux
Ludwig von Mises Institute, Hyacinth, Cato Institute