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Comment on Fried on Getting What we Don't Deserve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2009

Bruce A. Ackerman
Bruce A. Ackerman
Affiliation:
Columbia Law School
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I hope to persuade Charles Fried to think again about his developing views on distributive justice. Since I live at a certain remove from Cambridge, the best I can offer is a hypothetical dialogue with an imaginary person whose views seem, to me at least, of a Friedian inspiration.

My central question deals with the way Fried establishes his rights to things he candidly concedes he does not deserve. To present my problems, I shall begin with a simpler case than those – involving kidneys and talents – that Fried makes central to his discussion. Rather than starting with these rather special goods, I find it clarifying to focus first on more garden variety commodities – which, to emphasize their character, I shall call apples.

Type
Research Article
Information
Social Philosophy and Policy , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Autumn 1983 , pp. 60 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1983

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