Why Prioritize Needs?

Bernhard Kittel () and Stefan Traub ()
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Bernhard Kittel: Department of Economic Sociology
Stefan Traub: Department of Economics

Chapter Chapter 1 in Priority of Needs?, 2024, pp 1-23 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The presumption underlying the scientific engagement with need-based justice is that neither the principle of equity nor the principle of equality safeguards a distribution that ensures the preservation of human dignity through the satisfaction of needs as a fundamental proviso of human sociality. In this introductory chapter, we first show that in the context of other principles of distributive justice, the satisfaction of needs takes a prominent position both empirically and in political philosophy. We then proceed to discussing fundamental contributions to the theory of need-based justice and outline the perspective that the present volume adds to the literature. At the core is a process model of need-based justice that conceptually differentiates the identification of needs, the social and political recognition of needs, and the consequences of need-based distributions. We suggest that these empirical questions are associated with normative claims about the consistency, the legitimacy, and the sustainability of need-based justice. The chapter concludes with a brief outline of the following chapters.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53051-7_1

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