
Justice and Reciprocity
Andrew Lister(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 15. December 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-892404-3 (ISBN)
Description
Justice and Reciprocity examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on John Rawls's conception of "justice as fairness." Reciprocity was a central to justice as fairness, but Rawls wasn't explicit about the different forms of reciprocity, nor the diverse roles reciprocity played in his theory.
The book's main thesis is threefold. First, reciprocity is not simply a fact of human psychology or a duty, but a limiting condition on other duties. Second, such conditions are a natural consequence of thinking of equality as a relational value. However, third, we can identify limits on this conditionality, which explains how some duties of justice can be unconditional. The book explores the ramifications of this argument in a series of debates about distributive justice: productive incentives, duties to future generations, unconditional basic income, and global justice. In each domain, thinking about reciprocity as a limiting condition helps explain otherwise puzzling aspects of justice as fairness, in some cases making the view more plausible, but in others underlining limits that will be unappealing to egalitarians of a more unilateral bent. Lister ultimately shows that reciprocity involves more than returning benefits, and that limiting justice with reciprocity conditions need not make justice implausibly undemanding. In this way, the book rehabilitates reciprocity for egalitarianism.
The book's main thesis is threefold. First, reciprocity is not simply a fact of human psychology or a duty, but a limiting condition on other duties. Second, such conditions are a natural consequence of thinking of equality as a relational value. However, third, we can identify limits on this conditionality, which explains how some duties of justice can be unconditional. The book explores the ramifications of this argument in a series of debates about distributive justice: productive incentives, duties to future generations, unconditional basic income, and global justice. In each domain, thinking about reciprocity as a limiting condition helps explain otherwise puzzling aspects of justice as fairness, in some cases making the view more plausible, but in others underlining limits that will be unappealing to egalitarians of a more unilateral bent. Lister ultimately shows that reciprocity involves more than returning benefits, and that limiting justice with reciprocity conditions need not make justice implausibly undemanding. In this way, the book rehabilitates reciprocity for egalitarianism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-892404-3 (9780198924043)
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Person
Andrew Lister earned his PhD in Political Science from UCLA. He taught previously at Concordia University, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de recherche en ethique de l'Universite de Montreal, and is currently Associate Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has been an academic visitor at Balliol College and Oxford University's Centre for the Study of Social Justice, at the Universite Catholique de Louvain's Hoover Chair for Social and Economic Ethics, and at Nuffield College, Oxford. He works on public reason, democracy, and distributive justice.
Author
Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University
Content
1: Reciprocity and Egalitarianism
2: Reciprocity as Motivation
3: Reciprocity as Duty
4: Reciprocity as Limiting Condition
5: Role Reversal and the Difference Principle
6: Cooperation, Competition, and Incentives
7: Future Generations
8: Unconditional Basic Income
9: Global Justice
10: Conclusion
2: Reciprocity as Motivation
3: Reciprocity as Duty
4: Reciprocity as Limiting Condition
5: Role Reversal and the Difference Principle
6: Cooperation, Competition, and Incentives
7: Future Generations
8: Unconditional Basic Income
9: Global Justice
10: Conclusion