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The concept of justice has always been a key word in the vocabulary of political philosophy. No systematic account of political ideas can omit a discussion of this concept whether the interests of the author are in the field of value-free conceptual analysis or in that of the appraisal and recommendation of laws, policies and institutions. Moreover, it has been the practice in traditional political theorising to combine both activities. The earliest and most famous systematic treatise on political philosophy, Plato’s Republic was significantly both an enquiry into the ‘true nature’ of justice and a construction of an ideally ‘just’ state against which existing empirical states could be evaluated.
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Brian Barry, ‘Justice and the Common Good’, in A. Quinton (ed.), Political Philosophy, Oxford, 1967, p. 193.
T. Hobbes, Leviathan (ed. C. B. Macpherson), London, 1968, p. 312.
Brian Barry, Political Argument, London, 1965, Chapter 1.
J. Buchanan and G. Tullock, The Calculus of Consent, Ann Arbor, 1962.
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Barry, N.P. (1979). Hayek’s Theory of Justice. In: Hayek’s Social and Economic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04268-5_7
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