Social Injustice Essays in Political Philosophy

by Bufacchi, Vittorio

• ISBN13: 9780230251601
• ISBN10: 0230251609
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy. Starting from a comprehensive and engaging account of the idea of social injustice, this book covers a whole range of issues, including distributive justice, exploitation, torture, moral motivations, democratic theory, voting behavior, and market socialism.

Author Biography

VITTORIO BUFACCHI teaches Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Violence and Social Justice (2007) and editor of Violence: A Philosophical Anthology (2009) and Rethinking Violence (2011). He is currently working on the philosophical foundations of human rights.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Making Sense of Social Injustice
Why Political Philosophy Matters: The Imperative of Social Injustice
Studying Social Injustice: The Methodology of Empirical Philosophy
The Injustice of Exploitation
Torture, Terrorism and the State: A Refutation of the Ticking-Bomb Argument (with Jean Maria Arrigo)
The Enlightenment, Contractualism, and the Moral Polity
Motivating Justice
Justice, Equality, Liberty
Sceptical Democracy
Political Scepticism: A Reply to the Critics
Voting, Rationality and Reputation
Deliberative Democracy in Action
Socialism in the 21st century: Liberal, Democratic, and Market-Oriented
Bibliography
Index