David Boucher (ed.)

Perspectives on Social Justice

From Hume to Walzer
Herausgeber: Boucher, David; Kelly, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social Justice is a central concern of contemporary politics and political theory. The essays in this collection provide perspectives on the origins, development and likely problems for our understanding of the concept of social or distributive justice. Exploring the sources and origins of modern theories of justice as well as their critiques, this study is an excellent introduction to and survey of contemporary issues of social justice. Richard Bellamy University of East Anglia; David Boucher University of Wales, Swansea; Chris Brown University of Southampton; Joseph V Femian University of Liverpool;

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A significant addition to debates on social justice, this study explores key issues such as democracy, freedom, special rights and John Stuart Mill's liberal Utilitarianism, bringing these concerns to the fore of the political agenda.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415149983
• ISBN-10: 0415149983
• Artikelnr.: 22265740

Autorenporträt

David Boucher, Paul Kelly

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: David Hume, contractarian 1
3: Mill on justice
4: Pareto and the critique of justice
5: British Idealism and the just society
6: International social justice
7: Is environmental justice a misnomer?
8: Democracy, rights and distributive economic justice
9: Justice in the community
10: Contractarian social justice
11: Racial equality
12: Democracy, freedom and special rights 1
13: Beyond social justice and social democracy
14: Social justice in theory and practice
15: Why social justice?