Justice
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Justice is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 16, 2022 and September 20, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “A narrative of justice allows, at best, non-criminals - people who haven’t broken any of the rules yet”; “Four of these virtues they inherited from Greek philosophy and they represent the practical and straightforward virtues that any rational man is likely to find worthwhile: prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude”. It most often appears alongside 1984, Adam, Alfred.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 16, 2022
- Last seen: September 20, 2024
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- 1984 (1 shared issues)
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- Adam (1 shared issues)
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- Alfred (1 shared issues)
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- Amartya Sen (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Freddie deBoer says we’re a planet of cops. Maybe that’s why justice is eating the world.
Inline links: planet of cops
Helping the poor becomes economic justice. If they’re minorities, then it’s racial justice, itself a subspecies of social justice. Saving the environment becomes environmental justice, except when it’s about climate change in which case it’s climate justice. Caring about young people is actually about fighting for intergenerational justice. The very laws of space and time are subject to spatial justice and temporal justice.
Inline links: economic justice, racial justice, social justice, environmental justice, climate justice, intergenerational justice, spatial justice, temporal justice
I can’t find clear evidence on Google Trends that use of these terms is increasing - I just feel like I’ve been hearing them more and more often. Nor can I find a simple story behind why - it’s got to have something to do with Rawls, but I can’t trace any of these back to specific Rawlsian philosophers. Some of it seems to have something to do with Amartya Sen, who I don’t know enough about to have an opinion. But mostly it just seems to be the zeitgeist.
Inline links: on Google Trends
Critics of virtue ethics will often question how you can know what virtues the virtue ethicist should cultivate. In Catholic theology there is no such problem, as they have seven official virtues specified. Four of these virtues they inherited from Greek philosophy and they represent the practical and straightforward virtues that any rational man is likely to find worthwhile: prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude. Added to these four were three virtues unique to Christianity, believed to be revelations from God that mankind would not identify if left to their own devices. These three are faith, hope, and love.