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What is just? Criteria and practices of justice

7 January, 2022

We are convinced that we know everything about justice until we face the dilemma of moral choice and discussions around gender and racial equality. Is there an ideal of justice, how to determine what is just and what is not? We are talking about this today.


Guests:
Vadim Chaly - Associate Professor, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, I.Kant BFU
Artem Besedin - Associate Professor, Ph.D., Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Moderator: Anton Kuznetsov

Timecode:
00:00 - Teaser
00:45 - Introduction
02:25 - What is justice?
03:54 - Justice is something that cannot be by definition
05:13 - Is there an ideal of justice?
06:17 - Discussion about justice in society is a sign of his health
07:37 - The question of the variability of the standard of justice
09:28 - Is there any universal intuition of justice?
11:00 - Why intuitions of justice often fail. Who is the victim?
13:26 - How are there tools for analyzing fair and unfair actions?
16:12 - The fallacy of objectivity
16:28 - When the correction of injustice can consolidate injustice
18:50 - The dilemma of justice
20:30 - Criticism of the implementation of the justice correction, not the correction itself 
22:27 - How freedom of identity choice becomes a problem for justice practitioners
25:13 - How to distinguish the principle of justice from its implementation? Empiricism and rationalism
27:07 - The conflict between freedom and equality may be imaginary
28:30 - Perfectionist approach to justice and its problems
30:10 - Rawls' approach to justice. Example with amnesia
32:15 - "Everything you've always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask”
33:24 - What if the question of justice is left to AI? Criticism of Ronald Dworkin
37:00 - It makes no sense to talk about the concept of a just person
38:20 - What are the criteria for fairness? God or naturalism?
40:02 - Appeal to reason or why we can't take the principles of justice from nature
41:21 - The contradiction between rationalism and traditionalism
44:02 - How to be just? 
47:10 - Summary from Mary

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