Daily Dabble in the Classics, Mortimer Adler
“To each according to his wants,” far from being a maxim of justice, makes no practical sense at all; for, if put into practice, it would result in what Thomas Hobbes called “the war of each against all,” a state of affairs [anarchy] he also described as “nasty, brutish, and short.”
Source: Mortimer Adler, Excerpt from Chapter 24, “The Domain of Justice,” Six Great Ideas by Mortimer Adler – 1981. Read more of Mortimer Alder’s philosophical writings at The Moral Liberal’s new project, The Radical Academy.
