Elements of justice /
Schmidtz, David.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
The neighboorhood of justice -- The basic concept -- A variety of contestants -- Contextual functionalism -- What is theory? -- Desert -- What did I do to deserve this? -- Deserving a chance -- Deserving and earning -- Grounding desert -- Desert as an institutional artifact -- The limits of desert -- Reciprocity -- What is reciprocity? -- Varieties of reciprocity -- Debts to society and double counting -- The limits of reciprocity -- Equality -- Does equal trreatment imply equal shares? -- What is equality for? -- Equal pay for equal work -- Equality and opportunity -- On the utility of equal shares -- The limits of equality -- Need -- Hierarchies of need -- Need as a distributive principle -- Beyond the numbers -- What do we need? -- Intellectual debts -- Rawls -- Nozick -- Rectification -- Two kinds of arbitrary -- Procedural versus distributive justice.
Justice (Philosophy)