Gottfried Schweiger

5 Justice and Children’s Well-Being and Well-Becoming1

5.1 Introduction

Most theorists of justice would agree that they have to specify two things: the currency of justice – which goods should be shared – and the rule of justice – how those goods should be shared. I like to add three more things that every theory of justice should say something about: the social context in which those goods should be shared, the basic features of the agents of justice, and the ultimate goal of justice. If one wants to design a theory of justice for children, all of those five questions should be answered and I suppose they will be answered in at least slightly but decisively different ways than they are answered in relation to justice for ...

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