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I. Justice and its versions 3

C. Commutative or retributive j. (equal exchange between goods or evils, e.g. criminal j., wage system)

D. Distributive j. regarding material or immaterial goods, – redistributed in a community (the nation, the globe)

– according to a criterion (equality, personal merit, hours worked, one’s own needs)

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II. The theory of justice and its critics 1

In polit. philos. the main focus is on distributive j.

bec. of modernity’s big divide: the market generates efficiency, the state provides social justice by redistributive policies

both at a price: human costs and social/political instability vs. economic inefficiency and new social imbalances