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13 - Engaging Immanuel Kant and Ernst Tugendhat

from Part III - The Grounds of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Mathias Risse
Affiliation:
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
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Influential alternative accounts conceive of justice either as broadly applicable but not as stringent as I do or as similarly stringent but not as broadly applicable as I do. Ernst Tugendhat exemplifies the former approach, Immanuel Kant the latter. Their approaches generate an objection to mine: either distributive justice can be defined, as Tugendhat does, in terms of the kind of situation to which it applies and then plausibly applied to a broader range of contexts than my theory proposes, or distributive justice can be defined in terms of its stringency, as Kant does. I argue that it is sensible to limit justice to a narrower range of situations than Tugendhat allows, while thinking of the stringency of justice in such a way that a broader class of cases is covered than Kant allows. This takes us to something like my view.

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On Justice
Philosophy, History, Foundations
, pp. 269 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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