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A short history of distributive justice /

Publisher description: 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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fleischacker, Samuel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2004]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith. Two kinds of justice
  • The right of necessity
  • Property rights
  • Communal experiments and Utopian writings
  • Poor laws
  • 2. The eighteenth century. Citizen quality: Rousseau
  • Changing our picture of the poor: Smith
  • The equal worth of human beings: Kant
  • To the Vendôme Palais de Justice: Babeuf
  • 3. From Babeuf to Rawls. Reaction
  • Positivists
  • Marx
  • Utilitarians
  • Rawls
  • After Rawls.