How to Make Opportunity Equal - Gomberg, Paul
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Distributive injustices such as low pay, inferior health care and housing, as well as diminished opportunities in school, continue to blight the lives of millions of the urban poor in America and beyond. This book announces a new theory of justice. Paul Gomberg: * Focuses on how race and class structure unequal life prospects * Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labor * Maintains that true equality of opportunity comes only when all labor, both routine and complex, is shared * Proposes a new paradigm for the theory of…mehr

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Distributive injustices such as low pay, inferior health care and housing, as well as diminished opportunities in school, continue to blight the lives of millions of the urban poor in America and beyond. This book announces a new theory of justice. Paul Gomberg: * Focuses on how race and class structure unequal life prospects * Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labor * Maintains that true equality of opportunity comes only when all labor, both routine and complex, is shared * Proposes a new paradigm for the theory of justice. While Rawls, Sen, Nozick, and Walzer conceive justice as addressing how various goods are fairly obtained or distributed, Gomberg argues that justice in distribution must advance contributive opportunities and duties On Gomberg's contributive theory of justice, each person contributes to society not for individual material gain, but from a sense of what is required in order to build just relations with others. Passionate and radical, but rigorously argued, this book makes a vital and original contribution to philosophy and social thought. A discussion board for ideas and comments relating to the book can be found at: http: //howtomakeopportunityequal.blogspot.com/.
Autorenporträt
Paul Gomberg is Professor of Philosophy at Chicago State University. He has published widely in political philosophy, the history of philosophy, and on race in journals such as Ethics, American Philosophical Quarterly, and The Journal of Social Philosophy. His writing reflects his experience as an anti-racist activist and teacher.
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"How to Make Opportunity Equal is a bold and principledattempt to grapple with the fundamental problem of justice in themodern world, and along the way manages to throw a great deal oflight on the insidious character of modern racialcategorizations." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,June 2009)

"Gomberg writes in a hard-hitting, knowledgeable and engagingway about the problems of racism in society and marshals an arrayof evidence to illustrate his case." (Ethical Theory and MoralPractice)

"Paul Gomberg makes a powerful and provocative case thatreal equality of opportunity can only be achieved by overturningthe social division of labor that unfairly handicaps not justblacks but the working class in general."
-Charles W. Mills, University of Illinois at Chicago

"An important and original contribution to contemporarydebates about justice in political philosophy; an accessibleintroduction to those debates for students and the lay reader; anda powerful and important challenge to policymakers, educators andemployers, to think hard about their responsibilities for enablingpeople to lead flourishing lives."
-Harry Brighouse, University ofWisconsin-Madison

"In this impressive book, Paul Gomberg argues ardently,with great optimism, and with philosophical and sociologicalsophistication, for a radical new theory of egalitarianjustice."
-David Copp, University of Florida

"hard-hitting, knowledgeable and engaging"
-Alexander Brown, University College London…mehr