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9781405111461

Social Justice

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405111461

  • ISBN10:

    1405111461

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-02-13
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

This reader brings together classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice. A collection of classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice. Includes classic discussions of justice by Locke and Hume. Provides broad coverage of contemporary discussions, including theoretical pieces by John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin. Contains papers that apply theories of justice to concrete issues, such as gender and the family, the market, world poverty, cultural rights, and future generations. Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students.

Author Biography

Matthew Clayton is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Warwick.

Andrew Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading, and has recently held visiting positions at Harvard and Yale. They are editors of The Ideal of Equality (2000).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(18)
Matthew Clayton and Andrew Williams
PART I HISTORICAL ESSAYS 19(30)
1 Of Property
21(26)
John Locke
32(15)
2 Of Justice
David Hume
47(2)
PART II CONTEMPORARY THEORIES
3 On Justice as Fairness
49(36)
John Rawls
4 An Entitlement Theory
85(25)
Robert Nozick
5 Equality of Resources
110(24)
Ronald Dworkin
6 Against Equality of Resources: Relocating Dworkin's Cut
134(20)
G. A. Cohen
7 Against Luck Egalitarianism: What Is the Point of Equality?
154(32)
Elizabeth S. Anderson
8 The Concept of Desert
186(17)
David Miller
PART III ISSUES 201(108)
9 The Family: Gender and Justice
203(15)
Susan Moller Okin
10 The Market: On the Site of Distributive Justice
218(23)
G. A. Cohen
11 Justice across Cultures: Animals and Accommodation
241(23)
Paula Casal
12 Justice across Borders: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend
264(22)
Thomas W. Pogge
13 Justice across Generations: The Non-Identity Problem
286(23)
Derek Parfit
Further Reading 309(8)
Index 317

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