The Elements of Justice Contributor(s): Schmidtz, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511817517 ISBN-13: 9780511817519 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Open Ebook - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2012 |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political |
Dewey: 172.2 |
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Publisher Description: What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due, but what that means in practice depends on context. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, thus, is a constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and unity, but the integrity of justice is limited, in a way that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of a building. A theory of justice is a map of that neighborhood. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schmidtz, David: - David Schmidtz is Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, and Director of the Program of Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Rational Choice and Moral Agency and co-author, with Robert Goodin, of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. He is editor of Robert Nozick and edited, with Elizabeth Willott, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. His lectures on justice have taken him to sixteen countries and six continents. |
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