Inequity/Iniquity
Card on Balancing Injustice and Evil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12147863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Morton (0000-0002-9073-7529, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 197-201 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2979/hyp.2004.19.4.197 |
| OpenAlex | W4256001433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Card argues that we should not give injustice priority over evil.I agree.But I think Card sets us up for some difficult balances, for example of small evils against middlesized injustices.I suggest some ways of staying off the tightrope.In Chapter Five of her rich and challenging Atrocity Paradigm, Claudia Card argues that we too often direct our moral and social energies to combating small or middle-sized injustices, when they could be directed at real evils, but evils that do not take the form of injustice.In her words:Equality as an ethical and political value abstracts from particular levels of welfare.Its concern is the distribution of benefits This content downloaded from 142
Injustice · Political science · Sociology · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |