Dworkin, Ronald – Justice

Abstract

When philosophers talk about justice, they are sometimes concerned with distributive justice – i.e., with what would amount to a morally defensible allocation of resources, welfare, or some other good among members of a group. Ronald Dworkin offers an influential account of distributive justice, which he calls “equality of resources” (Dworkin 2000, 2011, ch 16). On other occasions, philosophers use the word “justice” to refer to a broader set of moral concerns. It is in this broader sense that Dworkin typically uses the word “justice,” and his understanding of justice in this broader sense is the focus of the present entry. Dworkin consistently maintained that justice is an “interpretive” ..