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Explicate the conception of justice in the critiques of communitarian theorists.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 20 marks
  • Justice

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The communitarians of the 1980s wrote against John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), but their critiques are not merely negative. Each carries a positive conception: justice is not a set of universal principles chosen by abstract individuals; it grows out of the shared goods, practices and meanings of a particular community.

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  • The shared starting point
  • Michael Sandel: justice as a remedial virtue
  • Alasdair MacIntyre: justice as a virtue within a tradition
  • Charles Taylor: justice includes recognition
  • Michael Walzer: complex equality
  • The limit
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion
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