Theories of Justice

Abstract

Contents: Introduction Part I Theorizing Justice: Two ways to think about justice, David Miller What do we want from a theory of justice?, Amartya Sen The structure of justification in political constructivism, Michael Buckley. Part II Justice as Equality: Equality and equality of opportunity for welfare, Richard J. Arneson On the currency of egalitarian justice, G.A. Cohen What is the point of equality? Elizabeth S. Anderson Equality of whom? Social groups and judgments of injustice, Iris Marion Young. Part III The Scope of Justice: Where the action is: on the site of distributive justice, G.A. Cohen Institutions and the demands of justice, Liam B. Murphy On the site of distributive justice: reflections on Cohen and Murphy, Thomas W. Pogge. Part IV Left-Libertarianism: Liberty and equality, Hillel Steiner Left-libertarianism, a review essay, Barbara H. Fried Why left-libertarianism is not incoherent, indeterminate or irrelevant: a reply to Fried, Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner and Michael Otsuka. Part V Justice as Desert: Distributive justice and desert, Alistair M. MacLeod Justice and desert in liberal theory, Samuel Scheffler On the comparative element of justice, Owen McLeod Equality and desert, Shelly Kagan. Part VI Feminists and Other Critics: Humanity before justice, T.D. Campbell Justice and gender, Susan Moller Okin The challenge of care to idealizing theories of distributive justice, Anca Gheaus Liberal and socialist egalitarianism, Kai Nielsen. Part VII Ideal and Non-Ideal Justice: Justice in ideal theory: a refutation, Colin Farrelly 'Ideal theory' as ideology, Charles W. Mills What's ideal about ideal theory?, Zofia Stemplowska Name index.