num_pages: 443
description: What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy, "Theories of Justice" stands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls's "A Theory of Justice."
language: English
title: A Treatise on Social Justice, Volume 1: Theories of Justice
titlecomplete: A Treatise on Social Justice, Volume 1: Theories of Justice
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 11
series: California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy
publisher: University of California Press