ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines more positive approach to social justice required by the impure conception of freedom. The claim being made that there is a positive connection between freedom and social justice, such that it must be part of any programme of social justice to secure the conditions of freedom. The impure theory of freedom has stressed that the free person is not independent of the community, but is embedded within it, but embedded in a particular way. A theory of freedom that recognized only the Non-Interference Condition would most likely see compensation as the most appropriate response to freedom violation. A welfare system that aims to ensure, the conditions for freedom, would therefore have to provide frameworks that express, protect and develop the conditions for autonomous membership of the community. The movement towards seeing frameworks of welfare as frameworks of membership has moved the discussion towards the idea of "citizenship", and a connection between welfare and citizenship.
