The Mirage of Social Justice
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The Mirage of Social Justice is a volume in Friedrich A. Hayek’s "Law, Legislation and Liberty" series that critiques the concept of social justice as incoherent and incompatible with a free-market order.
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| The Mirage of Social Justice canonical | 3 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mirage of Social Justice Context triple: [Law, Legislation and Liberty, hasPart, The Mirage of Social Justice]
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A.
Spheres of Justice
Spheres of Justice is a political philosophy book by Michael Walzer that develops a theory of complex equality by arguing that different social goods should be distributed according to distinct, context-specific principles.
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B.
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
The Algebra of Infinite Justice is a collection of political essays by Indian author Arundhati Roy that critiques globalization, nuclear nationalism, and U.S. foreign policy.
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C.
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
"How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart" is a book by legal scholar Jamal Greene that critiques the American legal system’s absolutist approach to rights and argues for a more balanced, context-sensitive way of resolving rights conflicts.
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D.
The Idea of Justice
The Idea of Justice is a philosophical work by Amartya Sen that critiques traditional theories of justice and proposes a comparative, realization-focused approach grounded in public reasoning and human capabilities.
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E.
Racial Imaginary Institute
The Racial Imaginary Institute is a cultural and intellectual project that examines race, whiteness, and visual culture through art, scholarship, and public programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mirage of Social Justice Target entity description: The Mirage of Social Justice is a volume in Friedrich A. Hayek’s "Law, Legislation and Liberty" series that critiques the concept of social justice as incoherent and incompatible with a free-market order.
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A.
Spheres of Justice
Spheres of Justice is a political philosophy book by Michael Walzer that develops a theory of complex equality by arguing that different social goods should be distributed according to distinct, context-specific principles.
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B.
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
The Algebra of Infinite Justice is a collection of political essays by Indian author Arundhati Roy that critiques globalization, nuclear nationalism, and U.S. foreign policy.
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C.
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
"How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart" is a book by legal scholar Jamal Greene that critiques the American legal system’s absolutist approach to rights and argues for a more balanced, context-sensitive way of resolving rights conflicts.
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D.
The Idea of Justice
The Idea of Justice is a philosophical work by Amartya Sen that critiques traditional theories of justice and proposes a comparative, realization-focused approach grounded in public reasoning and human capabilities.
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E.
Racial Imaginary Institute
The Racial Imaginary Institute is a cultural and intellectual project that examines race, whiteness, and visual culture through art, scholarship, and public programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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economics book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ philosophy book ⓘ |
| arguesThat |
a spontaneous order cannot have a distributive pattern intended by anyone
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attempts to impose social justice undermine the rule of law ⓘ market outcomes are not morally assessable as just or unjust ⓘ social justice is incompatible with a free-market order ⓘ the concept of social justice is incoherent ⓘ treating market incomes as if deliberately allocated is a category mistake ⓘ |
| author |
Friedrich A. Hayek
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linked to:
Friedrich Hayek
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
constructivist rationalism in social order
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egalitarian redistribution ⓘ redistributive social justice ⓘ |
| criticizesConcept | social justice ⓘ |
| genre |
classical liberalism
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legal philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| hasAuthorPosition |
claims that demands for social justice lead to discretionary government power
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defends the moral legitimacy of unequal outcomes in a free market ⓘ opposes the use of social justice as a guiding principle for public policy ⓘ |
| influenced |
conservative political theory
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debates on welfare state reform ⓘ libertarian critiques of social justice ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
distributive justice
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individual freedom ⓘ liberalism ⓘ market order ⓘ rule of law ⓘ social justice ⓘ spontaneous order ⓘ welfare state ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of spontaneous order and legal rules
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systematic critique of the idea of social justice ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Routledge & Kegan Paul ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Law, Legislation and Liberty ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Austrian School of economics
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classical liberalism ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Rules and Order
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The Constitution of Liberty ⓘ The Political Order of a Free People ⓘ The Road to Serfdom ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | Volume 2 ⓘ |
| supportsConcept |
general abstract rules of law
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individual liberty ⓘ limited government ⓘ |
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