Ep. 495 There's No Such Thing as Social Justice
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today I discuss the concept of social justice and compare it to the traditional conception of justice that was taken for granted in the Western world for thousands of years. I take some shots at John Rawls along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 495. |
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| 0:35.6 | Hello, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:42.4 | Today I want to talk about social justice a little bit, and I want to talk about it in the context of a couple of articles written by the late philosopher Anthony Flew in the |
| 0:48.0 | Journal of Libertarian Studies. |
| 0:49.5 | Now, Flew was a widely renowned philosopher, and we're lucky to say that he was also a libertarian. |
| 0:58.3 | And in recent days and weeks, I've been actually going back and flipping through old issues |
| 1:03.7 | of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. I have a lot of them in hard copy. But of course, |
| 1:07.5 | the entire print run of the JLS is available online thanks to the Mises Institute. |
| 1:13.1 | Just because I know from having read this journal so much when I was in college and grad school, there are so many great articles in it. |
| 1:21.1 | And unfortunately, it's just sitting there and people forget about it and they're not getting the benefit from it. |
| 1:25.7 | So from time to time, I'm going to dig out one of these old classic articles, and I'm going to review some of the points in it |
| 1:31.4 | with you so that we do get all the goodies that we can get from the JLS. And today I wanted to |
| 1:38.3 | talk about Flues' discussion of justice in two articles. They're quite similar, actually. When you look at them on |
| 1:47.5 | today's show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 495, you'll note that they are quite similar to each other. |
| 1:52.8 | One of them is called socialism and social justice, with quotation marks around the word |
| 1:58.1 | social. And the other one is enforced equality or justice. So we've got one from, |
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