Journal article
The limits of background justice
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The argument from background justice is that conformity to Lockean principles of justice in agreements and transactions does not preclude the development of inequalities that undermine the freedom and fairness of those very transactions, and that, therefore, special principles are needed to regulate society’s “basic structure”. Rawls offers this argument as his “first kind of reason” for taking the basic structure to be the primary subject of justice.
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 242.9KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S0265052513000174
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Social Philosophy and Policy Journal website
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 1-2
- Pages:
- 352-372
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- DOI:
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1471-6437
- ISSN:
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0265-0525
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- Language:
- English
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- PHILOSOPHY:16
- Deposit date:
- 2013-12-17
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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