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Elements of justice / David Schmidtz.

Author/creator Schmidtz, David
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Descriptionix, 243 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Contents The neighborhood 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 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 treatment 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
LCCN 2005011489
ISBN0521831644 (hardback)
ISBN0521539366 (pbk.)
ISBN9780521831642
ISBN9780521539364

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Joyner General Stacks B105.J87 S35 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold