Georgia Philosophical Society Meeting

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Abstract:  

Christie Hartley, Georgia State  

“Justice as Reciprocity Revisited”  

The concept of reciprocity is nearly ubiquitous in political philosophy, although there is disagreement over what it entails and its proper role, if any, in a theory of justice.  In this paper, I discuss the central elements of any conception of justice as reciprocity. I stress that theories of justice as reciprocity have different views of the purpose of reciprocal cooperation and that, as a result, theories can differ considerably when it comes to the kind of cooperative contributions that are fitting and sufficient as a matter of fairness in cooperative exchange.  I offer a sketch of a view of justice as reciprocity that I think has important advantages over one interpretation of Rawls’s notion of reciprocity.  

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