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 …

Since at least as long ago as Plato's time, philosophers have considered the possibility that
justice is at bottom a system of rules that members of society follow for mutual advantage …

Both self-interest and justice are prevalent human motives. Both concepts are frequently
used to justify and also to censure activities and decisions. The pursuit of self-interest may …

The defining feature of social dilemma situations is the inherent conflict faced by those
involved: should one act in his or her own individual best interest or sacrifice a measure of …

Is equality a distributive value or does it rather point to the quality of social relationships?
This article criticizes the distributive character of luck egalitarian theories of justice and …

There are two general classes of social conventions: conventions of coordination, and
conventions of partial conflict. In coordination problems, the interests of the agents coincide …

Social justice is justice in all of the relationships occurring in society: the treatment of
criminals, children and the elderly, domestic animals, rival countries, and so forth …

The word 'justice'is used in several different ways. First, justice is sometimes understood as
moral permissibility applied to distributions of benefits and burdens (eg, income …

No man during, either the whole of his life, or that of any considerable part of it, ever trod
steadily and uniformly in the path… of justice,… whose conduct was not principally directed …

Compliance with a social norm is a matter of self-enforceability and endogenous motivation
to conform which is relevant not just to social norms but also to a wide array of institutions …