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Nagel's Atlas
Author(s) -
JULIUS A. J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
philosophy and public affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.388
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1088-4963
pISSN - 0048-3915
DOI - 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2006.00061.x
Subject(s) - citation , atlas (anatomy) , computer science , library science , medicine , anatomy
I Say that two people are in the justice relation if the allocation of goods across them is just or if it is unjust. Which pairs of people are in the justice relation? This is a question about justice’s scope. Nagel answers that two people are in this relation only if they belong to the same state; he shares it with the New Yorker who irons his shirt but not with the Brazilian who grows his coffee. (p. 141) Behind this question of scope there’s the deeper issue of justice’s ground. Which features of the situations of two people in the justice relation account for that relation by giving rise to considerations of justice? The question is deeper because nothing less than a theory of justice can answer it.