Equal Justice
Published on 1. July 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-19-824079-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book sets forth a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons.
Reviews / Votes
A provocative, well-argued, elegantly written book that will root out any complacency that a reader might have had about these eternal issues on starting it. * Howard Davies, Times Higher Education Supplement * [Rakowski's] account of an egalitarian conception of distributive justice in this outstanding book ranks alongside the pioneering work recently done in this area by writers such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin ... his sophisticated and humane account of justice is among the most powerful and persuasive I have read ... This is a book that deserves to be-and no doubt will be-taken very seriously indeed. * Roger Crisp, Journal of Medical Ethics *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
695 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-824079-2 (9780198240792)
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Content
Introduction; Part I. Equality of Fortune: The presumption in favor of equal shares; Voluntary choices and emergent inequalities; Ineluctable risks: illness and injury; Occupational preferences, effort, and desert; Unequal endowments; Gifts, bequests, and intergenerational obligations; Justice and the transfer of body parts; Part II. Corrective Justice: The problem of liability rules: the failings of wealth maximization as a normative ideal; Outline of a theory of corrective justice; Illustrations; Part III. Saving and Taking Life: Do numbers count when saving lives?; The relevance of personal characteristics to choices between lives; Killing people or animals to benefit others; Envoi; Bibliography; Index