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Justice: The Art of Fairness

Like Duolingo, but for Justice: The Art of Fairness. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Justice: The Art of Fairness
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What you'll learn

Key ideas in Justice: The Art of Fairness

  • Utilitarianism uses a 'hedonic calculus' to maximize the total sum of well-being
  • Libertarianism prioritizes 'self-ownership' and the right to control one's labor
  • Individual rights are secondary to the 'greatest good for the greatest number'
  • Justice depends on the 'history' of how goods were acquired, not the final pattern
  • Justice is measured by the net positive consequences of an action
  • State-mandated redistribution is viewed as a violation of individual liberty
  • Utilitarianism's focus on aggregate outcomes over individual rights
  • Libertarian focus on process and voluntary consent
  • Meritocracy assumes a level playing field
  • Need-based justice and subsistence rights
  • Arbitrary advantages in meritocracy
  • Utilitarianism's focus on aggregate outcomes
  • Basic needs as prioritarian claims
  • Equalizing starting gate opportunities
  • Distribution based on vulnerability
  • Libertarian focus on process and consent
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Justice: The Art of Fairness the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Utility vs. Liberty

If a city planner uses a 'hedonic calculus' to decide on a new park, what is their primary goal?

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Where Justice: The Art of Fairness takes you

Move beyond simple 'right and wrong' to explore how we balance competing claims of merit, need, and historical repair.

  1. 1

    The Scales of Daily Life

    • Distributing Rewards and Burdens
    • Righting the Wrong
  2. 2

    Designing a Fair World

    • The Social Contract
    • Justice Beyond the Individual

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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