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The article explores the comparisons between the Plague, the Anthropocene, and COVID-19, highlighting the differences and similarities among them. It mentions that the COVID-19 pandemic is analyzed in terms of its impact on equality, societal responses, and the shift from divine justice to social justice. It delves into the relationship between COVID-19 and nature, presenting contrasting viewpoints of environmentalism and ecologism.

In a lecture given in 1991, while working on the never finished third volume of his series on theories of justice, Brian Barry gave a rare glimpse into the ideas with which he was wrestling - twenty years ahead of present-day political theorists. What is the role of the state, how are we to conceptualize it, in a world if globalization, and against the background of a legitimate appeal for international distributive justice? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In reaction to Steve Buckler's and David Dolowitz's earlier contribution to this journal, I argue that New Labour's 'third way' cannot be founded on John Rawls's theory of justice. 'Third way' practice contradicts Rawls's ideas about both redistributive justice and social justice in a broader sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]