Natural Justice
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Natural Justice [1] is a book by K. Binmore.
[edit] Comments by --RomualdoGrillo 05:01, 21 August 2007 (PDT)
The field of investigation is well described by the title "Natural Justice". Justice is seen as a social contract, a set of rules evolved as an equilibrium point in the game of life we all are playing. Natural here does not mean "superior" or "unchangeable" or decided by god. Justice is natural because naturally evolved as species and human beings. Binmore is a "mathematician turned economist", that enters an unusual field. The main instrument is Game Theory. Binmore compares his studies with previous efforts by Plato, Kant, Hobbes, Hume and others. Here his criticism about Kant
"I was reading the work of an emperor who was clothed in nothing more than the obscurity of his prose"
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