A Short History of Distributive Justice / Samuel Fleischacker.
2005
HB523 ǂb F58 2004eb
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Title
A Short History of Distributive Justice / Samuel Fleischacker.
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9780674036987
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2005]
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©2005
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource (204 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674036987 doi
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HB523 ǂb F58 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
340/.115
Summary
Distributive justice in its modern sense calls on the state to guarantee that everyone is supplied with a certain level of material means. Samuel Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to the poor is a modern idea, developed only in the last two centuries. Earlier notions of justice, including Aristotle's, were concerned with the distribution of political office, not of property. It was only in the eighteenth century, in the work of philosophers such as Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, that justice began to be applied to the problem of poverty. To attribute a longer pedigree to distributive justice is to fail to distinguish between justice and charity. Fleischacker explains how confusing these principles has created misconceptions about the historical development of the welfare state. Socialists, for instance, often claim that modern economics obliterated ancient ideals of equality and social justice. Free-market promoters agree but applaud the apparent triumph of skepticism and social-scientific rigor. Both interpretations overlook the gradual changes in thinking that yielded our current assumption that justice calls for everyone, if possible, to be lifted out of poverty. By examining major writings in ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy, Fleischacker shows how we arrived at the contemporary meaning of distributive justice.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith
2. The Eighteenth Century
3. From Babeuf to Rawls
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith
2. The Eighteenth Century
3. From Babeuf to Rawls
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index