Samuel Freeman

Liberalism and Distributive Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Liberalism and Distributive Justice discusses liberalism, capitalism, distributive justice, and John Rawls's difference principle. Chapters are organized in a narrative arc: from liberalism as the dominant political and economic system, to the laws governing interpersonal transactions in liberal society, to basic economic and political institutions that determine distributive justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780197635759
• ISBN-10: 019763575X
• Artikelnr.: 63301508

Autorenporträt

Samuel Freeman is the Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of Justice and the Social Contract (OUP, 2006) and of Rawls. He edited the Cambridge Companion to Rawls, as well as John Rawls's Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy and his Collected Papers.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Economic Justice
1. Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal Traditions
2. Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal View
Part II: Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle
3. Rawls on Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle
4. Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference Principle
5. Private Law and Rawls's Principles of Justice
Part III: Liberal Institutions and Distributive Justice
6. The Social and Institutional Bases of Distributive Justice
7. The Basic Structure of Society as The Primary Subject of Justice
8. Ideal Theory and the Justice of Institutions
9. Constructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification
References
Index