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Equity, Equality, and Need: What Determines Which Value Will Be Used as the Basis of Distributive Justice?

1975/07/01 by Morton Deutsch · 36 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Political Philosophy and Ethics #Philosophical Ethics and Theory #Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1975.tb01000.x

Abstract

The concept of justice is discussed, and the thesis is advanced that “equity” is only one of the many values which may underlie a given system of justice. Hypotheses about the conditions which determine which values will be employed as the basis of distributive justice in a group are proposed, with discussion centered about the values of “equity,” “equality,” and “need” and the conditions which lead a group to emphasize one rather than another value.

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