We do not argue about justice (or anything else, for that matter) as disembodied and a-social “selves” suspended by some sky hook above the hustle and bustle of social conflicts. Social location profoundly shapes our beliefs and practices. We think and act as “encumbered selves” (Sandel 1982, 179–83). “Traditions” are inescapable. Even “the history of liberalism, which began as an appeal to alleged principles of shared rationality against what was felt to be the tyranny of tradition, has itself been transformed into a tradition,” as MacIntyre has pointed out (MacIntyre 1988, 335). To leave all
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