Category: Political Philosophy

Two of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century, John Rawls (1921-2002) and Robert Nozick (1938-2002), disagreed as to how best to provide distributive justice. In philosophy, distributive justice can be defined as The justice that is concerned with the apportionment of privileges, duties, and goods in consonance with the merits of the individual…

Political and social philosophy examines the ideas of rights and justice. Distributive justice is defined as a concept that addresses the ownership of goods in society where it is assumed that there is a large amount of fairness in the distribution of goods. Robert Nozick criticized John Rawls theory of distributive justice as using government…