Gheaus, Anca2018-04-032017Gheaus A. Love and justice: a paradox? Can J Philos. 2017;47(6):739-59. DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2017.13196560045-5091http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34278Three claims about love and justice cannot be simultaneously true and therefore entail a paradox: (1) Love is a matter of justice. (2) There cannot be a duty to love. (3) All matters of justice are matters of duty. The first claim is more controversial. To defend it, I show why the extent to which we enjoy the good of love is relevant to distributive justice. To defend (2) I explain the empirical, conceptual and axiological arguments in its favour. Although (3) is the most generally endorsed claim of the three, I conclude we should reject it in order to avoid the paradox.application/pdfeng© Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in "Gheaus A. Love and justice: a paradox? Can J Philos. Forthcoming 2017". Canadian Journal of Philosophy is available online at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00455091.2017.1319656.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2017.1319656Distributive justiceLoveCareMetric of justiceDuty to loveFeasibilityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess