Table of Contents
Preface
I. Classical Readings of Justice
Introduction
I. Plato: Justice as Harmony in the Soul and State
II. Aristotle: types of Justice
III. Thomas Hobbes: The contractarian Theory of Justice
IV. David Hume: Justice as Convention
V. Karl Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program
II. Contemporary Theories of Distributive Justice
Introduction
II.A. Libertarianism: Justice as Liberty
John Hospers: The Libertarian Manifesto
Robert Nozick: A Libertarian Theory of Justice
G.A. Cohen: Robert Nozick & Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve Liberty
Ernest van den Haag: A Conservative Critique of Libertarianism
Jan Narveson: Justice as Pure Efficiency
II.B. Welfare Liberalism and Communitarianism
John Rawls: A Liberal Theory of Justice
Alasdair MacIntyre: Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions
Michael Sandel: Morality and the Liberal Ideal: A Critique
Amy Gutmann: A Liberal Critique of Communitarianism
Susan Okin: Justice, Gender, and the Family
Stephen Nathanson: The Comprehensive Welfare State: Objections and Replies
Nicholas Rescher: A Pluralist Theory of Justice
II.C. Equality, Desert, and Equal Opportunity
Gregory Vlastos: Justice ad Equality
T.M. Scanlon: The Diversity of Objections to Inequality
Derek Parfit: Equality or Priority?
James Rachels: What People Deserve
James Fishkin: Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family
William Galston: a Liberal defense of Equal Opportunity
Steven Cahn: Two Concepts of Affirmative Action
William Julius Wilson: Race specific Policies and the Truly Disadvantaged
Editors of the Harvard law Review: Facial Discrimination
III. International Justice
Henry Sidgwick: International Justice: External Policy & Immigration
Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality
James R. Otteson: Limits on Our Obligation to Give: A Critique of Singer
Alasdair MacIntyre: Is Patriotism a Virtue?
Brian Barry: A Cosmopolitan Theory of International Society
Michael Walzer: Membership
Louis P. Pojman: The Case for Cosmopolitan Justice
Timothy King: Justice and Immigration
For Further Reading
