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Apr 1, 1999 · 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 Laban Walzer (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual.A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of Dissent, an intellectual magazine that he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University.
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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. That world, as I have already argued, is the political community, whose members distribute power to one another and avoid, if ...
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Dec 10, 2015 · Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of America’s foremost political theorists and public intellectuals. His work has spanned many of the most important topics in political thought: theories of just war, terrorism, toleration, distributive justice, democracy, multiculturalism, the rules of international society, as well as methodological questions relating to how to do normative ...
May 1, 2016 · He argues for three limits. Non-members who live in the national territory cannot be expelled (Walzer 1983, 42–44). Needy people, such as the poor or refugees, have to be given either territory, wealth, or, if they are related to the present members in some way, membership (Walzer 1983, 46–51). People who are members of the society in all ...
The Adjudicating Citizen: On Equal Membership in Walzer's Theory of Justice ROBERT J. VAN DER VEEN* 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,
Membership. (Chapter 2 of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality) Michael Walzer. Members and Strangers. 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.
