Michael Walzer

Walzer adopted a clearly relativistic position in his book Spheres of Justice (1983), in which he asserted that the caste system is “good” by the standards of traditional Indian society. Critics argued, however, that his position was untenable. One simply needs to consider a community…

…such as Michael Sandel and Michael Walzer, urged that the shared understanding of a community concerning how it is appropriate to live should outweigh the abstract and putatively impartial requirements of universal justice. Even liberal egalitarians criticized some aspects of Rawls’s theory. Ronald Dworkin, for example, argued that understanding egalitarian…