justice as equality, christopher ake (1975)

(71) justice is to be understood as complete equality in benefits and burdens (it can, of course, be traded for other social virtues)

(76-77) Barry's critiqeu of Rawls: difference principle is not about justice, exclusively, but actually incorporates considerations of welfare [the whole 'better off' bit]

(80) crux of the argument is that justice comes apart from other considerations; and that it absorbs common distributive maxims

(81) friend who finds book? reward only the one who found it, or the one who looked without finidng it? only the former, but this is because it's competition within the rules of a contest

(86) intentions matter to the extent that they reflect burdens borne [the danger, in all this, is that Ake's argument simply narrows what we use 'justice' to describe, w/o actually assisting in any solution to the problem of how to arrange institutions to fit intuitions]

(88) effort and need are not opposed criteria, on this conception--both are burdens that people bear