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This 3-page assignment focuses on Badwar's article on "The Circumstance of Justice," in the book Philisophical Perspectives on Sex and Love. In this article, Badwar argues against Sandel's theory on Inverse Proportionality.
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Proportionality, or IP is false, yet its something that hasnt necessarily been challenged. Badwar claims hes ready to challenge the thesis itself, first by tying this thesis to the concept
of justice. His first feeling is that the IP thesis tends to be based on what he considers a poor conception of justice. Second, he claims that Sandels use of
friendship to argue in favor of IP is incorrect by noting that friendship (as it is a shared conception of "good" and "common identity") is at least as important as
justice. But what, exactly, does the inverse proportionality thesis entail? Badwar notes that Sandels definition proposes IP as a family situation in
which relationships tend to be governed by spontaneous affection - meaning justice is in evidence only to a small degree (as affection overtakes concept of justice). In other words, justice
tends to be pre-empted by "a spirit of generosity in which I am rarely inclined to claim my fair share" (p. 268). In this way of life, he goes on
to say, the more generosity there is, the less the human being gets, namely because friendship equals generosity equals sharing. Given this as a basis, Sandels IP thesis goes that
first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. Second, when justice is the primary virtue of a political society,
community and friendship become not so important. What he basically says here is that justice (and its circumstances) tends to be inversely related to friendship and community, mainly because friendship
and community equal benevolence, whereas justice does not. Also, "shared ends" of friendship tend to fly in the direct face of justice as well, at least according to this IP
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