TY - JOUR A1 - Forst, Rainer T1 - Knowing what justice means and being committed to it: remarks on Allen Buchanan's analysis of conservative factual beliefs T2 - Journal of applied philosophy N2 - Allen Buchanan argues that a particular set of false factual beliefs, especially when part of a comprehensive ideology, can lead persons to develop ‘morally conservative’ convictions that stand in the way of realising justice even though these persons have a ‘firm grasp of correct principles of justice and a robust commitment to their realisation’. In my remarks, I raise some questions concerning the core argument: How ‘firm’ can a grasp of principles of justice be if a person is blind to the realities of injustice? And how ‘sincerely committed’ to justice can such an injustice-insensitive person be? Alternatively: How firm is that grasp or commitment if one has a radically pessimistic view about human nature so that one does not believe that (egalitarian) justice can or could ever be realised? Secondly, I ask: If such ideologies or false beliefs are in play in reproducing injustice, do they not also ‘mask’ existing injustices? Y1 - 2021 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63918 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-639183 SN - 1468-5930 VL - 38 IS - 5 SP - 742 EP - 746 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER -