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Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick /

"The author challenges what many of today's social and political philosophers widely accept: that social injustice is identified with inequality and social justice with equality. Rather, Jasay argues that justice preempts so-called social justice, so any attempt to adorn equality in the ro...

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Autor principal: De Jasay, Anthony, 1925- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Kliemt, Hartmut, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Part 1. Is equal superior? : Equalities, the claims of social justice and the Indian rope trick -- Ranking worlds by words: a case for inequality -- Against poverty and the misuse of language that helps to perpetuate it -- The "justice" that overrules the rules of justices -- Part 2. Inadvertent surrender, real politics, and rational man : The inadvertent surrender: spreading the state, shrinking liberty -- Presumption of liberty -- On rightsism -- Human rights and wrongs: misnomers, illusions, tensions -- Part 3. Contractarianism and its surroundings : Conduct and contract -- Ordered anarchy and contractarianism -- Inspecting the foundations of liberalism -- Part 4. Errors and omissions : Suckers, punters, pathbreakers: when Homo oeconomicus is selflessly selfish -- Who will guard the guardians? -- Can opportunity be equal?: A note on false pretenses in equality discourse -- Morals by agreements. 
520 |a "The author challenges what many of today's social and political philosophers widely accept: that social injustice is identified with inequality and social justice with equality. Rather, Jasay argues that justice preempts so-called social justice, so any attempt to adorn equality in the robes of social justice is an illusion, a sleight of hand, 'much as the Indian rope in the notorious trick is made to stand up skyward on its own.' The fifteen articles in this collection include both published and unpublished papers written over the years 2008 to 2012"--Publisher description 
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