[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964) on Social Justice

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964) on Social Justice
http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1146801189.shtml


   Whether a laissez-faire economy or state capitalism, or something in
   between, represents the ideal of social justice is not determined by
   any a priori principle of justice; and individual adherence to one or
   another such ideal must depend upon the empirically determined
   consequences of that manner of organizing the social economy which is
   in question, and upon the relative value assigned to such
   consequences--for example, the relative value of the larger freedom of
   individual initiative and, possibly, the greater productivity under
   private enterprise, as against the greater security of individuals
   and, perhaps, the gain in distributing goods more nearly according to
   need under socialism.