#distributivejustice — Public Fediverse posts
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There is something new in the X-Phi Blog’s »Hot Off The Press« series. My book »Empirical Studies on Questions of Need-Based Distributive Justice« has just been published! https://xphi.net/2025/10/08/hot-off-the-press-empirical-studies-on-questions-of-need-based-distributive-justice/ #philosophy #xphi #distributivejustice #justice
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This essay from aeon.co caught my attention because I think a lot about human beauty. Political theorist Andrew Mason proposes legislation against appearance discrimination. I'm not sure that I agree, but I need to think and read more about this topic.
I would be keen to hear the views of people on Mastodon.
Why workplaces should not discriminate based on how people look | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/why-workplaces-should-not-discriminate-based-on-how-people-look
#Lookism #AppearanceDiscrimination #SocialJustice #DistributiveJustice #Discrimination #EmploymentLaw #Beauty #HumanBeauty #BeautyStandards
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On #Meritocracy As A Theory Of #DistributiveJustice
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/03/on-meritocracy-as-a-theory-of-distributive-justice.htmlThe “playing field” isn’t level, there is an oversupply of talent and the methods for determining #merit are often winner-take-all, the social determinants of merit often don’t line up with objective criteria of merit; and the methods for determining merit aren’t robustly sensitive to desert.