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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Indianapolis :
Liberty Fund,
2015.
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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.