David Estlund (Brown) visited Amsterdam, and as part of the festivities we read and discussed with him his "What’s Unjust about Structural Injustice?." Ethics 134.3 (2024). I don’t have much to contribute to discussion of Estlund’s overall argument, but at the start of section II there is a passage that I found fascinating and worth a digression. Estlund’s own understanding of is is this: “How might a social structure be not only bad but also wrong apart from individual moral wrongs?” (p. 337) Here’s what he writes:
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Structural Injustice, and the Piacular
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David Estlund (Brown) visited Amsterdam, and as part of the festivities we read and discussed with him his "What’s Unjust about Structural Injustice?." Ethics 134.3 (2024). I don’t have much to contribute to discussion of Estlund’s overall argument, but at the start of section II there is a passage that I found fascinating and worth a digression. Estlund’s own understanding of is is this: “How might a social structure be not only bad but also wrong apart from individual moral wrongs?” (p. 337) Here’s what he writes: