A Short History of Distributive Justice
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: June 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780674013407
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political; Political Science / History & Theory; Distributive justice
Description: "Samuel Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to the poor is a modern idea, developed only in the last two centuries. Earlier notions of justice, including Aristotle's, were concerned with the distribution of political office, not of property. It was only in the eighteenth century, in the work of philosophers such as Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, that justice began to be applied to the problem of poverty." "By examining major writings in ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy, Fleischacker shows how we arrived at the contemporary meaning of distributive justice."--BOOK JACKET.