Abstract
The difference between procedural justice and consequential justice constitutes a very important conceptual distinction in contemporary theories of justice. Different theories of justice offer different ways of understanding procedures, consequences and the conceptual relationship between them. This paper attempts to explore the roles of procedural justice and consequential justice in theories of justice. The main focus is to examine the development of David Miller's theory of justice and reveal its distinctiveness. Rawls's notions of ”pure procedural justice”, ”perfect procedural justice” and ”imperfect procedural justice” will be discussed for the purpose of constructing an analytical framework to accommodate different theories of justice, including process theories, outcome theories and hybrid theories. According to our analysis, Miller's theory has changed from an outcome theory to a hybrid theory of justice. This change stimulates us to rethink the ways by which social justice theory may be constructed.
Translated title of the contribution | Procedures, Consequences, and Social Justice: On David Miller's Hybrid Theory of Justice |
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Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
Pages (from-to) | 217-269 |
Number of pages | 53 |
Journal | 人文及社會科學集刊 = Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 Jun 1 |