300150 Natural Justice: Reading Binmore (S) (SoSe 2024)

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Sociologists rarely reflect on what constitutes justice, fairness, or equity. They take it mostly for granted and often even claim to speak in its name. Should this look a bit arrogant to you, while still thinking that questions of fairness are central to many, if perhaps not all social affairs, this seminar might offer you a way out – at least intellectually. Ken Binmore has come forward with perhaps the most solid explanation of the evolution of fairness-norms. He approaches the issue from a game-theory perspective, which gives his account a quite unusual degree of precision, and in the end is inclined to embrace egalitarian fairness norms for today´s social world.

In this seminar we will closely follow his book “Natural Justice” (2011).

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Ken Binmore, Natural Justice, Oxford U.P. 2011.

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weekly Fr 10-12 V2-200 08.04.-19.07.2024

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