Justice
By: Tom Campbell.
Series: Issues in political theory
Publisher: Humanities Press International; Prometheus Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Justice
Description: Political theorists agree that justice is a fundamental political value but disagree profoundly about its proper analysis and philosophical justification. This book sets out the main contending theories of justice as exemplified in the works of John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Bruce Ackerman, Richard Posner, and Wojciech Sadurski. Each approach is introduced in its own terms, assessed in accordance with its ability to generate a clear, consistent and illuminating account of justice as a distinctive social, political and legal value, and then assessed in a specific area of practice, such as welfare rights, the protection of minorities, the distribution of income and criminal law.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 207-211.
Includes index.