Distributive Justice, Social Inequalities and Utilitarianism in Hume
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Hume, distributive justice, social inequalities, utilitarianism, public interestAbstract
In this paper, I intend to challenge two theses that make up the standard interpretation of Hume’s theory of social justice. First, this understanding does not provide us with sufficient conceptual resources for sketching a theory of distributive justice, and, second, that this theory is, in principle, indifferent to occasional highly unequal social arrangements. On the contrary, I advance here an outline for a possible theory of distributive justice in Hume. I argue, based on textual evidence, that Hume systematically addresses issues such as the initial distribution, changes in the distributive order, and, finally, occasional redistributive arrangements in light of principles that combine imaginative associations, public interest considerations, and utilitarian intuitions.
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