David Schmidtz's "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 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.

Acknowledgements

PART 1 WHAT IS JUSTICE?

 1 The Neighborhood of Justice

 2 The Basic Concept

 3 A Variety of Contestants

 4 Contextual Functionalism

 5 What Is Theory?

PART 2 HOW TO DESERVE

 6 Desert

 7 What Did I Do to Deserve This?

 8 Deserving a Chance

 9 Deserving and Earning

 10 Grounding Desert

 11 Desert as Institutional Artifact

 12 The Limits of Desert

PART 3 HOW TO RECIPROCATE

 13 Reciprocity

 14 What Is Reciprocity?

 15 Varieties of Reciprocity

 16 Debts to Society arid Double Counting

 17 The Limits of Reciprocity

PART 4 EQUAL RESPECT AND EQUAL SHARES

 18 Equality

 19 Does Equal Treatment Imply Equal Shares?

 20 What Is Equality for?

 21 Equal Pay for Equal Work

 22 Equality and Opportunity

 23 On the Utility of Equal Shares

 24 The Limits of Equality

PART 5 MEDITATIONS ON NEED

 25 Need

 26 Hierarchies of Need

 27 Need as a Distributive Principle

 28 Beyond the Numbers

 29 What Do We Need?

PART 6 THE RIGHT TO DISTRIBUTE

 30 Intellectual Debts

 31 Rawls

 32 Nozick

 33 Rectification

 34 Two Kinds of Arbitrary

 35 Proceduralversus Distributive Justice

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