HAYEK ON SOCIAL-JUSTICE - REPLY TO LUKES AND JOHNSTON

Hayek's attack on the ideal of social justice, thought long ignored by political theorists has recently been the subject of a number of larg ely unsympathetic studies (those of Lukes and Johnston being the most recent) in which his critique is dismissed as at best simply mistaken and at worst frivolous. The responses to Hayek's case against social j ustice, However,fail to draw any blood,for they no not seriously deal with Hayek's central claim that the very notion of social justice is i ncoherent.