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In this month’s Forum Samuel Gregg revives …
Social Justice
Friday Roundup, April 5th
- April’s Liberty Forum attempts to answer the question What is Social Justice? Essays from Sam Gregg, Eric Mack, and David Rose evaluate this question from various philosophical, economic, and political perspectives. Gregg’s lead essay opens as follows:
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Social Justice Theory: A Solution in Search of a Problem
What is social justice? Sam Gregg’s essay answers this question by reviewing the origins and evolution of the concept. I find little to quibble with in Sam’s remarks and I am certainly in no position to make them a fortiori…
Social Justice is the State
Samuel Gregg’s essay, “What is Social Justice?” is an important reminder that many different moral traditions – including the Catholic natural law tradition – may lay claim to the vocabulary of “social justice” and to an associated notion of the …
What is Social Justice?
Introduction
Few terms have assumed more prominence in public discourse, especially that emanating from the left, in recent decades than “social justice.” It has now become part of the rhetorical apparatus of virtually all center-left, social democratic and labor political …
Responses
The Poor Are a Gold Mine
A scheme by the British government to reduce unemployment benefits of those who refuse to take jobs at a rate of pay equal to their full benefits has been overturned by the courts. The judges did not deny the right …
A Pathology of Democracy
Kenneth Minogue examines with learning and wit a mentality which he calls “the servile mind,” which accompanies the existence and progression of Western democracy. Minogue contrasts the servile mind with the “the moral life,” as in this definition:…
John Tomasi’s Free Market Synthesitis
John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness[1] has the intellectual ambition of formulating a synthesis – at least a tentative synthesis — of key elements of libertarian or classical liberal thought on the one hand and social democrat thought on the other …
John Tomasi Rearranges the Deck Chairs on the Good Ship Liberalism
The number of contradictory positions associated with the words “liberal” and “liberalism” have led some to conclude that such expressions are now so unstable in their meaning that they lack sufficient descriptive power of any lasting significance. Of course, the …