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Strategic Justice - Convention and Problems of Balancing Divergent Interests (Hardcover)
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Strategic Justice - Convention and Problems of Balancing Divergent Interests (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Moral Theory
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In Strategic Justice, Peter Vanderschraaf argues that justice can
be properly understood as a body of special social conventions. The
idea that justice is at bottom conventional has ancient roots, but
has never been central in philosophy because convention itself has
historically been so poorly understood. Vanderschraaf gives a new
defense of this idea that integrates insights and arguments of past
masters of moral and political philosophy together with recent
analytical and empirical concepts and results from the social
sciences. One of the substantial contributions of this work is a
new account of convention that is sufficiently general for
summarizing problems of justice, the social interactions where the
interests of the agents involved diverge. Conventions are defined
as equilibrium solutions to the games that summarize social
interactions having a variety of possible stable resolutions and a
corresponding plurality of equilibria. The basic idea that justice
consists of a system of rules for mutual advantage is explored in
depth using this game-theoretic analysis of convention. Justice is
analyzed as a system of conventions that are stable with respect to
renegotiation in the face of societal changes such as resource
depletion, technological innovation and population decline or
growth. This new account of justice-as-convention explains in a
cogent and natural way what justice is and why individuals have
good reason to obey its requirements. Contrary to what many have
thought, this new account shows how the justice-as-convention view
can give a good account of why justice requires that the most
vulnerable members of society receive protections and benefits from
the cooperative surplus created by general compliance with justice.
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