The Elements of Justice

What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due, but what that means in practice depends on context. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, thus, is a constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and unity, but the integrity of...

What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due, but what that means in practice depends on context. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, thus, is a constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and unity, but the integrity of justice is limited, in a way that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of a building. A theory of justice is a map of that neighborhood.

[加]戴维·施密茨（1955—），美国亚利桑那大学哲学系与管理学院讲席教授，政治经济与道德科学系创系主任，自由哲学研究中心主任，乔治·梅森大学政治经济学杰出研究员，《社会哲学与政策》（Social Philosophy and Policy）主编。曾任教于耶鲁大学，主要研究领域为伦理学与政治哲学，是美国古典自由主义哲学界的杰出代表。

译者：赵英男，北京大学法学院博士生，研究领域为比较法与西方法哲学。

胡恩海，法国巴黎第一大学哲学系博士生，研究领域为科学哲学与科学史。

李钧鹏，华中师范大学社会学院教授，美国哈佛大学肯尼迪政府管理学院博士后，湖北省社会发展与社会政策研究中心研究人员，International Sociology Reviews主编，研究领域为社会理论。