Why is it a good thing if people and institutions are just? Several answers may be given, but the only one appearing plausible understands justice as law-abidingness under a higher law, natural law, as it was called in the tradition, the fulfilment of which is supposed to be a good thing. Actually we do not have evidence of there being such a higher law. So we do not have an answer to the question what makes it recommendable to be just. What people and institutions do should be judged, then, with a view, not to whether it is just, but to whether it is beneficial. True, that will be controversial, but so in fact is talk of things being just.
Building: | Angell Hall |
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Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
Tags: | Philosophy |
Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Department of Philosophy |