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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.