Spheres of Justice

Name: Spheres of Justice
Author: Michael Walzer

by Michael Walzer

Theory that justice varies by social sphere and cannot be reduced to single principle

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Michael Walzer

American political philosopher whose Spheres of Justice offered a pluralist theory of distributive justice arguing that different social goods have different distributive principles. Just and Unjust Wars revived the just war tradition for the modern age. He is associated with the communitarian critique of Rawlsian liberalism.

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