social justice is about more than fairness in the distribution of goods

from Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young:
… as doers and actors we seek to promote many values of social justice in addition to fairness in the distribution of goods: learning and using satisfying and expansive skills in socially recognized settings; participating in forming and running institutions, and receiving recognition for such participation; playing and communicating with others, and expressing our experience, feelings, and perspective on social life in contexts where others can listen.*


Danielle Allen, in her foreword to this 2011 edition:
More than twenty years after its original publication in 1990, Iris Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference can be seen to have been prescient …*


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