Occasional Papers
How Much Justice Does A Society Need?
In the ninth John Bonython Lecture, Kenneth R. Minogue, Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, recalls that justice used to mean the rule of law, or the impartial application of a system of rules that render individuals secure and enable them to pursue their own moral destinies. This notion has been usurped by ‘social justice’, which enjoins the state to see to it that ‘every anomaly has been removed and total grievanceless harmony reigns’. The ‘managerialist’ approach of the modern state demands that we exhibit morally correct attitudes and in return supplies us ‘with a riskless life in which freedom has become like pocket money- a small space in which we may harmlessly indulge our whims”
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