Social Justice: Distributive, Retributive, Compensatory

FAIN: FT-13624-77

Hugo A. Bedau
Tufts University (Somerville, MA 02144-2401)

To attempt to identify and test the principle of retributive and compensation justice in relation to the principles of distributive justice. PI believes that social justice is an overall conception of just institutions which combines the principles and institutions of these three kinds of justice. PI hopes to connect his investigations of justice with contemporary social and political controversies in the hope of illuminating them and letting that illumination confer confirmation upon the underlying principles.