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Justice

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

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Robert Nozick

Defends individual rights and voluntary exchange against patterned theories of distributive justice.

“Entitlement theory must be examined, not inherited.”
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1921–2002

John Rawls

Asks what principles free and equal people would choose for a just society.

Ethics · Justice · Liberal Thought
1938–2002

Robert Nozick

Defends individual rights and voluntary exchange against patterned theories of distributive justice.

Ethics · Justice · Libertarian Thought
1953–present

Michael Sandel

Uses public moral debate to ask what markets should not buy and what citizens owe each other.

Civic Thought · Ethics · Justice
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