Equal Justice by Eric Rakowski (Acting Professor of Law, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley)
This book sets forth a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons.
Equal Justice
Equal Justice
Summary
The core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. As well as considering the distribution of resources, property rights and the saving of life and providing challenging and unconventional answers, Radowski develops an alternative account of tort and property law.
Equal Justice Summary
Equal Justice Reviews
A provocative, well-argued, elegantly written book that will root out any complacency that a reader might have had about these eternal issues on starting it. * Howard Davies, Times Higher Education Supplement *
[Rakowski's] account of an egalitarian conception of distributive justice in this outstanding book ranks alongside the pioneering work recently done in this area by writers such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin ... his sophisticated and humane account of justice is among the most powerful and persuasive I have read ... This is a book that deserves to be-and no doubt will be-taken very seriously indeed. * Roger Crisp, Journal of Medical Ethics *
[Rakowski's] account of an egalitarian conception of distributive justice in this outstanding book ranks alongside the pioneering work recently done in this area by writers such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin ... his sophisticated and humane account of justice is among the most powerful and persuasive I have read ... This is a book that deserves to be-and no doubt will be-taken very seriously indeed. * Roger Crisp, Journal of Medical Ethics *
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part I. Equality of Fortune: The presumption in favor of equal shares; Voluntary choices and emergent inequalities; Ineluctable risks: illness and injury; Occupational preferences, effort, and desert; Unequal endowments; Gifts, bequests, and intergenerational obligations; Justice and the transfer of body parts; Part II. Corrective Justice: The problem of liability rules: the failings of wealth maximization as a normative ideal; Outline of a theory of corrective justice; Illustrations; Part III. Saving and Taking Life: Do numbers count when saving lives?; The relevance of personal characteristics to choices between lives; Killing people or animals to benefit others; Envoi; Bibliography; Index
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GOR002114275
9780198240792
0198240791
Equal Justice by Eric Rakowski (Acting Professor of Law, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19930701
400
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