ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the connection between freedom and social justice. It outlines one dominant response to social injustice within liberal political theory, that of compensation. The chapter shows that the connection between the distribution of wealth and the distribution of health. It argues that inequality of resources has a destructive effect on the opportunities for active participation in the community, and therefore damages membership. The chapter aims to develop a view of a particular kind of deprivation—not deprivation of a particular kind of material resource, but deprivation of the opportunity to be a fully active chooser, doer and participator in the community. The connection between freedom and social justice is made through the idea of membership, that freedom within a community requires active membership of that community, and therefore, under the principle of equal membership, all are entitled to be equally active choosers, doers and participators in their community.
