The elements of justice
By: David Schmidtz.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Justice (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophical questions; title: The basic concept; title: The limits of theorizing; title: A variety of contested conceptions; title: Contextual functionalism; title: Desert; title: What did I do to deserve this?; title: Deserving a chance; title: Deserving and earning; title: Grounding desert; title: Desert as an institutional artifact; title: The limits of desert; title: Reciprocity; title: What is reciprocity?; title: Varieties of reciprocity; title: Debts to society and the problem of double counting; title: The limits of reciprocity; title: Equality; title: Equal shares and equal respect; title: What is equality for?; title: Equal pay for equal work; title: Equality and opportunity; title: On the utility of equal shares; title: The limits of equality; title: Need; title: Need as a distributive principle; title: Beyond the numbers; title: Hierarchies of need; title: Need as king versus need as kingmaker; title: What do we need?; title: Separate persons and the limits of justice; title: Intellectual debts; title: Rawls; title: Nozick; title: Rectification; title: Two kinds of arbitrary; title: Procedural versus distributive justice.