Short History of Distributive Justice

Name: Short History of Distributive Justice
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ISBN: 9780674018310

ISBN-10: 0674018311

ISBN-13: 9780674018310

Edition: 2004

Authors: Samuel Fleischacker

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Fleischacker traces the philosophy of guaranteeing aid to the poor to the materialist philosophies of the 19th century, before which the notion of distributive justice applied only to political power & poverty was alleviated by charity.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Samuel Fleischacker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His books include "A Short History of Distributive"



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



From Aristotle to Adam Smith



Two Kinds of Justice



The Right of Necessity



Property Rights



Communal Experiments and Utopian Writings



Poor Laws



The Eighteenth Century



Citizen Equality: Rousseau



Changing Our Picture of the Poor: Smith



The Equal Worth of Human Beings: Kant



To the Vendome Palais de Justice: Babeuf



From Babeuf to Rawls



Reaction



Positivists



Marx



Utilitarians



Rawls



After Rawls


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index