POLS 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Distributive Justice, Wilt Chamberlain, Robert Nozick

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 351
• Professor: Margaret R Moore

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Section 1: the entitlement theory justice in acquisition. resources, jointly deciding how they are to be doled out. The subject of justice in holdings consists of three major topics. The minimal state is the most extensive state that can be justified. There is no central distribution; no person or group entitled to control all the. In this chapter, we consider the claim that a more extensive state is justified, because necessary (or the best instrument) to achieve distributive justice. Any state more extensive violates people(cid:495)s rights. The term (cid:494)distributive justice(cid:495) is not a neutral one. 1st original acquisition of holdings, the appropriation of unheld things. This processes by which unheld things may come to be held . If the world were wholly just the complete principle of distributive justice would simply say that a distribution is just if everyone is entitled to the holdings they possess under the distribution.