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.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Scales of Daily Life and Designing a Fair World. It assumes you already know the basics.
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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
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
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.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If a city planner uses a 'hedonic calculus' to decide on a new park, what is their primary goal?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
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
The Scales of Daily Life
- Distributing Rewards and Burdens
- Righting the Wrong
- 2
Designing a Fair World
- The Social Contract
- Justice Beyond the Individual
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Justice: The Art of Fairness is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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