Social Justice Revisited
Social Justice Revisited
This chapter discusses the issues of merit in relation to social justice. It suggests that the justification of class-related inequalities that appeals to the necessity of incentives can be distinguished from the justification that appeals to the idea that people born into different classes are unequally deserving of class-related rewards. It outlines the possibility of an alternative defence of meritocratic justice. However, it should not be understood as a distribution in which people are rewarded on the basis of the ability to satisfy other people's preferences.
Keywords: merit, social justice, inequalities, incentives, social class, meritocracy
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