The neighboorhood of justice
The basic concept
A variety of contestants
Contextual functionalism
What is theory
Desert
What did I do to deserve this?
Deserving a chance
Deserving and earning
Grounding desert
Desert as an institutional artifact
The limits of desert
Reciprocity
What is reciprocity?
Varieties of reciprocity
Debts to society and the problem of double counting
The limits of reciprocity
Equality
Does equal trreatment imply equal shares
What is equality for?
Equal pay for equal work
Equality and opportunity
On the utility of equal shares
The limits of equality
Need
Hierarchies of need
Need as a distributive principle
Beyond the numbers
What do we need?
Intellectual debts
Rawls
Nozick
Rectification
Two kinds of arbitrary
Procedural versus distributive justice.
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