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Gordon Menzies

University of Technology Sydney

Rights Based on Worth Links Justice to Anthropology

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J S Mills conception of society is that unless you harm others (in which case 2nd order comes in) the only thing that determines proper action is your unfettered freedom. I have criticized this framework.

I argue in a book that the Power Discourse of Nietzsche which privileges the strong, competent and beautiful provides a legitimizing narrative for free market liberalism.

Grounding justice in rights based on worth (or place in the scriptural narrative) connects justice to anthropology and a narrative of human flourishing, which has been a concern of my economic work with Donald Hay

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  3. Theology Brief1
  4. Disciplinary Brief20
  5. Disciplinary Note6
  6. Theology Brief Postscript1