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Justice is not a socially learned construct.

The Legal Theory Blog points to an interesting piece of research on "The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice". The basic premise of the work is that people's understanding of Justice is not socially learned. The motivation for such a statement is that our notions of Justice appear very early on in our development, long before complex social interactions can affect their development. Additionally, our understanding of justice is far too complex a set of issues to be communicated and coordinated through social learning. In particular, it is argued that the complex reasoning processes involved are not suitable to social learning.

Posted at 06:20PM Jun 24, 2008 by Finbar Dineen in General  |  Comments[0]