Justice As Impartiality

Name: Justice As Impartiality
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ISBN: 9780198290926

ISBN-10: 0198290926

ISBN-13: 9780198290926

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Brian Barry

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Almost every country today contains adherents of different religions and different secular conceptions of the good life. Is there any alternative to a power struggle among them, leading most probably to either civil war or oppression? The argument of this book is that justice as impartiality offers a solution. According to the theory of justice as impartiality, principles of justice are those principles that provide a reasonable basis for the unforced assent of those subject to them. The object of this book is to set out the theory, explain its rationale, and respond to the variety of criticisms that have been made of it. This is the second volume of A Treatise on Social Justice. The first,…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Impartiality



Justice as Mutual Advantage and Justice as Reciprocity



Justice as Impartiality



The Political Theory of Impartial Justice



Is Impartial Justice a Fraud?



The Idea of Neutrality



Justifying Impartial Justice



Impartial Justice and Individual Discretion



Levels of Impartiality



Kohlberg and the Feminist Critique of Impartiality


Appendix: The Captain's Dilemma


Notes


Index