A short history of distributive justice

1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith Two kinds of justice The right of necessity Property rights Communal experiments and Utopian writings Poor laws 2. The eighteenth century Citizen quality: Rousseau Changing our picture of the poor: Smith The equal worth of human beings: Kant To the Vendôme Palais de Justice: Babeuf 3. From Babeuf to Rawls Reaction Positivists Marx Utilitarians Rawls After Rawls