A Short History of Distributive Justice
Published on 1. July 2009
204 pages
978-0-674-03698-7 (ISBN)
Description
Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to the poor is a modern idea, developed only in the last two centuries. By examining major writings in ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy, he shows how we arrived at the contemporary meaning of distributive justice, distinguishing it from the historical concept of charity.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03698-7 (9780674036987)
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Samuel Fleischacker is Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Content
Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith 1. Two Kinds of Justice 2. The Right of Necessity 3. Property Rights 4. Communal Experiments and Utopian Writings 5. Poor Laws 2. The Eighteenth Century 1. Citizen Equality: Rousseau 2. Changing Our Picture of the Poor: Smith 3. The Equal Worth of Human Beings: Kant 4. To the Vendome Palais de Justice: Babeuf 3. From Babeuf to Rawls 1. Reaction 2. Positivists 3. Marx 4. Utilitarians 5. Rawls 6. After Rawls Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
