Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice Essays on Moral and Political Philosophy

by Narveson, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780742513297
• ISBN10: 0742513297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice is a collection of essays of the moral and political philosophy of Jan Narveson. The essays in this collection share a consistent theme running through much of Narveson's moral and political philosophy, namely that politics and morals stem from the interests of individual people, and have no antecedent authority over us. The essays in this collection, in various ways and as applied to various aspects of the scene, argue that the ultimate and true point of politics and morals is to enable us to make our lives better, according to our varied senses of what that might mean.

Author Biography

Jan Narveson is professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	xi
Utilitarianism and Formalism	1	(12)
A Puzzle about Economic Justice in Rawls' Theory	13	(22)
Marxism: Hollow at the Core	35	(14)
On Recent Arguments for Egalitarianism	49	(14)
Moral Realism, Emotivism, and Natural Law	63	(16)
Justice as Pure Efficiency: Pareto Efficiency, Justice, and the Free Market--A Pure Efficiency Conception of Justice	79	(18)
Toward a Liberal Theory of Ideology--A Quasi-Marxian Exploration	97	(14)
Property Rights: Original Acquisition and Lockean Provisos	111	(20)
Deserving Profits	131	(32)
Fixing Democracy	163	(22)
The Anarchist's Case	185	(18)
Have We a Right to Nondiscrimination?	203	(22)
Collective Rights?	225	(18)
The Drug Laws: More Nails in the Coffin of American Liberalism	243	(22)
Children and Rights	265	(14)
Natural Resources, Sustainability, and the Central Committee	279