Love and Justice: a Paradox?

Anca Gheaus
2017 Canadian Journal of Philosophy  
Three claims about love and justice cannot be simultaneously true and therefore entail a paradox: (1) Love is a matter of justice. (2) There cannot be a duty to love. (3) All matters of justice are matters of duty. The first claim is more controversial. To defend it, I show why the extent to which we enjoy the good of love is relevant to distributive justice. To defend (2) I explain the empirical, conceptual and axiological arguments in its favour. Although (3) is the most generally endorsed
more » ... im of the three, I conclude we should reject it in order to avoid the paradox.
doi:10.1080/00455091.2017.1319656 fatcat:fygurjtqzbhfdkoi7r3m5rtmmy