Aspects of Justice
When we turn to the broader question of justice, it has other constitutions, we find a number of views. Herein comes the conceptions of distributive Justice - what is the proper way of distribution of income or social position in a given society. There are two major conception of distributive/social justice, one involves the notion of merit and the other involves need and equality.
Merit
The first conception argues that each person's social position and (material) wealth must be decided on the basis of merit. When people talk of careers open to talents and equality of opportunity, they have merit in view. However, the question arises as to how to measure merit or talent? The liberals say that the price that someone can command in a free market is the reasonable indicator of his/her value to others. The socialist critics are of the opinion that market receipts are often affected by chance and social background which have nothing to do with merit
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