Talk:Social Justice in the Liberal State

I'm a big fan of Bruce Ackerman. Can someone explain the difference between the paper "The Liberal State" and his book Social Justice in the Liberal State? If they're the same, then I will certainly contribute to this page!

The proper title of the book is Social Justice in the Liberal State and I recommend the title of the article be changed to reflect this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VentrueCapital (talk • contribs)

done. Ste4k 05:19, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I think this was done wrong. The article should be Social Justice in the Liberal State, but that's just a redirect to this page, which has the incorrectly formatted title of Social justice in the liberal state —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.29.141.11 (talk • contribs)
 * I fixed it. Article now exists at Social Justice in the Liberal State --MichaelZimmer (talk) 20:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, the article names for books are an exemption to the otherwise standard rule of not capitalizing second and subsequent words . See Naming conventions (books), and for example, Spheres of Justice or A Theory of Justice. --MichaelZimmer (talk) 23:30, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Summary
Moving all of this to Discussion, previous OR regarding the book:

The book addresses the topic of social justice given scarcity in society. In this paper Ackerman gives an argument on how several principles, rationality, consistency, neutrality, and undominated equality can result in a conversational method that can determine the legitimacy of the use of power by an individual over a given resource.

Ackerman starts his argument with the idea that there are a scarce amount of resources in society, and people will conflict over these scarce resources. The conflict arises over resources since a person must control their person and their immediate environment (to get food, etc.) to sustain life.

It is inevitable in a world of scarce resources in which a person will claim control over resources that another person has. The question is, how would such a conflict be resolved with a conscientious attempt at a reasonable answer?

One possible answer is to use power to attack the claimant. As well, the less power the person has, the more they stand to lose from argument; the more power the person has the more easily they can suppress the claimant. Ackerman assumes that instead of violence, the person will respond with an argument, with particular features to be discussed, as to why they should control the resources in question.

Ackerman hopes to build a blueprint of an argument method that can successfully be used to settle claims over resources. The assumption mentioned in the last section is that the parties will not use violence to suppress the speech of the other party. Ackerman's blueprint has four principles that, when used together, can lead to a successful discussion method to resolve resource conflicts.

...Ste4k 06:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Other Sources
The New Republic - Social Justice in the Liberal State. (10/25/1980) By: Walzer, Michael - Reviews the book "Social Justice in the Liberal State," by Bruce A. Ackerman. Ste4k 06:53, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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Neutrality
The article may be overly in favor of the book instead of taking a NPOV. e.g. "the breadth of the attack on the fundamental issues of man and society is impressive.", ""Ackerman has mounted a profound challenge to contract thinking"

Ianstagram (talk) 08:57, 8 October 2021 (UTC)