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  • THE COMMONWEALTH OF BEES: ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OFJUSTICE-THROUGH-ETHOS

  • Gerald Gaus
  • Journal:
    Social Philosophy and Policy / Volume 33 / Issue 1-2 / Fall 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 December 2016, pp. 96-121
    Print publication:
    Fall 2016

  • Some understand utopia as an ideal society in which everyone would be thoroughlyinformed by a moral ethos: all would always act on their pure conscientiousjudgments about justice, and so it would never be necessary to provideincentives for them to act as justice requires. In this essay I argue that sucha society is impossible. A society of purely conscientiously just agents wouldbe unable to achieve real justice. This is the Paradox of PureConscientiousness. This paradox, I argue, can only be overcome when individualsare prepared to depart from their own pure, conscientious, judgments ofjustice.