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May 1, 2016 · People who are members of the society in all but name, such as so-called guest workers, must be offered full membership (Walzer 1983, 58–61). The last point is the most significant for us, as the US has lots of people who live as members of the society without having formal citizenship.
Apr 1, 1999 · Abstract. This article presents a reconstruction of Michael Walzer's pluralist theory in Spheres of Justice. It starts by noting that Walzer's main thesis (justice resides in autonomous spheres of social goods, according to principles reflecting each good's social meaning) is too restrictive to clarify his own concern with ‘complex equality ...
Michael Walzer, the distinguished communitarian philosopher, has argued in his book, Spheres of Justice, that the authority to limit membership of the national community is fundamental to national independence. Admission and exclusion are at the core of communal independence.
The first issue is Michael Walzer’s discussion of membership and citizenship in Spheres of Justice, [1] specifically in how he applies these concepts (membership and citizenship) to the distribution of the social goods of welfare and security.
Walzer subscribes to a homogeneous conception of membership: in every domain he discusses, access to the goods of the domain is reserved to the same category of members.
Abstract. The idea of distributive justice presupposes a bounded world within which distributions takes place: a group of people committed to dividing, exchanging, and sharing social goods, first of all among themselves.
Michael Walzer launched his theory of complex equality in 1983 in a book entitled Spheres of Justice.1 The theory, as will be seen, is innovative in that it focuses on distribution, where distribution is defined very broadly to include not just tangible goods, but also abstract goods such as rights,2 and even char-acteristics.3 Walzer’s writing ...
