Justice: An Anthology

by Pojman,Louis P.

• ISBN13: 9780131835160
• ISBN10: 0131835165
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-02-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A comprehensive anthology on justice with readings that offer the different theories on the importance and placement of justice in society.The well-argued, accessible articlesencompass classic to contemporary theories and cover both positive and negative.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
I. Classical Readings of Justice	1	(64)
Introduction	1	(6)
I. Plato: Justice as Harmony in the Soul and State	7	(13)
II. Aristotle: Types of Justice	20	(10)
III. Thomas Hobbes: The Contractarian Theory of Justice	30	(12)
IV David Hume: Justice as Convention	42	(4)
V. Karl Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program	46	(4)
VI. John Stuart Mill: Utility and Justice	50	(15)
II. Contemporary Theories of Distributive Justice	65	(270)
Introduction	65	(2)
II.A. Libertarianism: Justice as Liberty	67	(70)
VII. John Hospers: The Libertarian Manifesto	72	(7)
VIII. Robert Nozick: A Libertarian Theory of Justice	79	(19)
IX. G.A. Cohen: Robert Nozick & Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve Liberty	98	(16)
X. Ernest van den Haag: A Conservative Critique of Libertarianism	114	(8)
XI. Jan Narveson: Justice as Pure Efficiency	122	(15)
II.B. Welfare Liberalism and Communitarianism	137	(76)
XII. John Rawls: A Liberal Theory of Justice	140	(17)
XIII. Alasdair MacIntyre: Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions	157	(9)
XIV. Michael Sandel: Morality and the Liberal Ideal: A Critique	166	(5)
XV. Amy Gutmann: A Liberal Critique of Communitarianism	171	(9)
XVI. Susan Okin: Justice, Gender, and the Family	180	(13)
XVII. Stephen Nathanson: The Comprehensive Welfare State: Objections and Replies	193	(13)
XVIII. Nicholas Rescher: A Pluralist Theory of Justice	206	(7)
II.C. Equality, Desert, and Equal Opportunity	213	(122)
XIX. Gregory Vlastos: Justice and Equality	221	(17)
XX. T.M. Scanlon: The Diversity of Objections to Inequality	238	(14)
XXI. Derek Parfit: Equality or Priority?	252	(15)
XXII. James Rachels: What People Deserve	267	(12)
XXIII. James Fishkin: Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family	279	(15)
XXIV. William Galston: A Liberal Defense of Equal Opportunity	294	(14)
XXV. Steven Cahn: Two Concepts of Affirmative Action	308	(8)
XXVI. William Julius Wilson: Race Specific Policies and the Truly Disadvantaged	316	(13)
XXVII. Editors of the Harvard Law Review: Facial Discrimination	329	(6)
III. International Justice	335	(118)
XXVIII. Henry Sidgwick: International Justice: External Policy & Immigration	338	(8)
XXIX. Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor	346	(11)
XXX. Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality	357	(8)
XXXI. James R. Otteson: Limits on Our Obligation to Give: A Critique of Singer	365	(13)
XXXII. Alasdair Macintyre: Is Patriotism a Virtue?	378	(12)
XXXIII. Brian Barry: A Cosmopolitan Theory of International Society	390	(15)
XXXIV. Michael Walzer: Membership	405	(13)
XXXV. Louis P. Pojman: The Case for Cosmopolitan Justice	418	(25)
XXXVI. Timothy King: Justice and Immigration	443	(10)
For Further Reading	453