Michael Walzer
American political philosopher, born in 1935; author of Spheres of Justice (1983).
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The argument of Spheres of Justice is still mostly right
I have to say something, briefly, about the argument of that book, which I still think is mostly right.
dissentmagazine.orgSaid c. 2013This on korrents
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Human society is a distributive community
Human society is a distributive community.
archive.orgSaid c. 1983This on korrents
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The argument of Spheres of Justice is still mostly right
I have to say something, briefly, about the argument of that book, which I still think is mostly right.
Feminism and Me (Dissent, Winter 2013) Said c. 2013
Okin's feminist critique was a necessary corrective to Spheres of Justice
Okin’s book was a necessary corrective to my arguments (and also to all the other theorists that she took on).
Feminism and Me (Dissent, Winter 2013) Said c. 2013
Grasping Okin's picture of encompassing patriarchal cultures would have changed Spheres of Justice
But I would surely have written differently if I had grasped the force of Okin’s picture of women living in radically encompassing patriarchal cultures.
Feminism and Me (Dissent, Winter 2013) Said c. 2013
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Equality in politics, education and the economy has not carried over into family life as expected
Yes, I would now write much more about that than I did in the 1980s, and I would worry now as I didn’t then about why greater equality in the spheres of politics, education, and economy hasn’t reverberated as I thought it would in family life.
Feminism and Me (Dissent, Winter 2013) Said c. 2013
The indirect approach has not transformed the division of housework and child care
The indirect approach hasn’t significantly transformed the distribution of housework and child care.
Feminism and Me (Dissent, Winter 2013) Said c. 2013
How to realize complex equality in the family is less clear now than in 1980
But exactly how to realize complex equality in the family is less clear to me now than it was in 1980, and that is perhaps a small advance.
Feminism and Me (Dissent, Winter 2013) Said c. 2013
Defending intimacy and justice together is the next generation's task
The defense of intimacy and justice at the same time—that is the task of the next generation of political theorists.
Feminism and Me (Dissent, Winter 2013) Said c. 2013
Human society is a distributive community
Human society is a distributive community.
Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983) Said c. 1983
No good should go to people just because they hold some other good, without regard to its meaning
No social good x should be distributed to men and women who possess some other good y merely because they possess y and without regard to the meaning of x.
Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983) Said c. 1983
Justice is relative to social meanings
Justice is relative to social meanings.
Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983) Said c. 1983
Every substantive account of distributive justice is a local one
Every substantive account of distributive justice is a local account.
Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983) Said c. 1983
Political egalitarianism aims at a society free from domination
The aim of political egalitarianism is a society free from domination.
Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983) Said c. 1983
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