Social Justice And Individual Ethics In An Open Society

Author : Frank Vandenbroucke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364259476X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and Individual Ethics in an Open Society written by Frank Vandenbroucke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the need for incentives justify inequality? Starting from this question, Frank Vandenbroucke examines a conception of justice in which both equality and responsibility are involved. In the first part of the inquiry, which explores the implementation of that conception of justice, the justification of incentives assumes that agents make personal choices based only upon their own interests. The second part of the book challenges the idea that a normative conception of distributive justice can be based on that traditional assumption, i.e. that personal choices are not the subject matter of justice. Thus, Vandenbroucke questions the Rawlsian idea that the primary subject of a theory of justice is the basic structure of society, and not the individual conduct of its citizens. For a society to be really just, the ethos of individual conduct has to serve justice. Non-mathematical readers can skip the formal model proposed in Chapter 3 and understand the rest of the book.

Author : Frank Vandenbroucke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783642594779
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and Individual Ethics in an Open Society written by Frank Vandenbroucke and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Gaus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190648996
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Society and Its Complexities written by Gerald Gaus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy and the Open Society it created had decisively won their century-long struggle against authoritarianism. Although subsequent events have shocked many, F.A. Hayek would not have been surprised that we are in many ways disoriented by the society we have created. As he understood it, the Open Society was a precarious achievement in many ways at odds with our deepest moral sentiments. His path-breaking analyses argued that the Open Society runs against our evolved attraction to "tribalism" that the Open Society is too complex for moral justification; and that its self-organized complexity defies attempts at democratic governance. In his final, wide-ranging book, Gerald Gaus critically reexamines Hayek's analyses. Drawing on diverse work in social and moral science, Gaus argues that Hayek's program was manifestly prescient and strikingly sophisticated, always identifying real and pressing problems. Yet, Gaus maintains, Hayek underestimated the resources of human morality and the Open Society to cope with the challenges he perceived. Gaus marshals formal models and empirical evidence to show that our Open Society is grounded on moral foundations of human cooperation originating in our distant evolutionary past, but has built upon them a complex and diverse society that requires us to rethink both the nature of moral justification and the meaning of democratic self-governance. In these fearful, angry and inwardly-looking times, when political philosophy has itself become a hostile exchange between ideological camps, The Open Society and Its Complexities shows how moral and ideological diversity, so far from being the enemy of a free and open society, can be its foundation.

Author : Madison Powers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195375130
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice written by Madison Powers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops a theory of social justice for the specific context of health care policy, although it can also be applied to education, economic development and other social policy issues where resources are limited.

Author : John-Stewart Gordon, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1461633826
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality and Justice written by John-Stewart Gordon, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply.

Author : Madison Powers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195189261
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice written by Madison Powers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to whichpeople live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health policy is just. In this pathbreaking book, senior bioethicists Powers and Faden confront foundational issues about health and justice. How much inequality in health can a just society tolerate? In aworld filled with inequalities in health and well-being, which inequalities matter most and are the most morally urgent to address? In order to answer these questions, Powers and Faden develop a unique theory of social justice that, while developed for the specific contexts of public health andhealth policy, applies equally well to other realms of social policy including education and economic development. The book includes a careful comparison of Powers' and Fadens' approach to social justice with those of other theorists, including notably Rawls, Sen and Nussbaum. With their eyes firmlyfixed on the injustices of this world and what is known about their causal determinants, Powers and Faden place a six dimensional theory of well-being at the heart of their theory of justice. They then explore the implications of this theory for public health, the medical market place, and thesetting of priorities in health policy. In the process, they arrive at arresting conclusion about the moral foundations of public health, childhood, the relevance of social groups to questions of justice, and the proper role for economic analysis in social policy. The audience for the book isscholars and students of bioethics and moral and political philosophy, as well as anyone interested in public health and health policy.

Author : Michael Boylan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742533271
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Just Society written by Michael Boylan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Just Society represents a complete account of Boylan's original worldview theory of ethics and social philosophy. The author sets out the foundation and application of the personal worldview imperative (for ethics) and the shared community worldview imperative (for social philosophy). These form the structure for a rights-based deontological theory that is holistic and underscored by an understanding of the good will that incorporates novel depictions of the sincere and authentic agent who displays sympathy, care, openness, and love. In the end, A Just Society strikes a balance between extreme liberalism (libertarianism) and those advocating the rule of the general will (utilitarianism). As such, the book makes an important contribution to ethical and political theory, as well as grounding an original approach to public philosophy.

Author : Susan D. Carle
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814772749
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice written by Susan D. Carle and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-08-22 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal ethics should be far more than a set of rules on professional responsibility; they can serve as a means for changing power relations, empowering the disenfranchised, and advocating progressive social change. Lawyers’ Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice broadens the discussion on legal ethics by first introducing the historical and theoretical background and then connecting it to real world issues while addressing lawyers' ethical obligations to work for social justice. The reader features differing critical approaches and opens up new avenues of ethical debate. While the literature included is diverse and interdisciplinary, it shares a vision of legal ethical inquiry as a means for changing power relations, empowering the disenfranchised, and advocating progressive social change. Through a combination of provocative selections, lively writing, concrete examples of cases and social movements, and incisive editorial commentary, Lawyers ’Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice defines the emergence of an exciting new field of critical legal ethics scholarship.

Author : Samuel Richard Freeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521657068
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rawls written by Samuel Richard Freeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Marc Fleurbaey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191607576
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare written by Marc Fleurbaey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements? This book develops a theory of fairness incorporating a concern for personal responsibility, opportunities and freedom. With a critical perspective, it makes accessible the recent developments in economics and philosophy that define social justice in terms of equal opportunities. It also proposes new perspectives and original ideas. The book separates mathematical sections from the rest of the text, so that the main concepts and ideas are easily accessible to non-technical readers. It is often thought that responsibility is a complex notion, but this monograph proposes a simple analytical framework that makes it possible to disentangle the different concepts of fairness that deal with neutralizing inequalities for which the individuals are not held responsible, rewarding their effort, respecting their choices, or staying neutral with respect to their responsibility sphere. It dwells on paradoxes and impossibilities only as a way to highlight important ethical options and always proposes solutions and reasonable compromises among the conflicting values surrounding equality and responsibility. The theory is able to incorporate disincentive problems and is illustrated in the examination of applied policy issues such as: income redistribution when individuals may be held responsible for their choices of labor supply or education; social and private insurance when individuals may be held responsible for their risky lifestyle; second chance policies; the measurement of inequality of opportunities and social mobility.