Distributive justice : getting what we deserve from our country / Fred Feldman

Author: Feldman, Fred, 1941-
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Locating the Target -- 1.1.Distributive Justice as a Virtue of States -- 1.2.Some Alternatives to Desertism -- 1.2.1.Egalitarianism -- 1.2.2.Sufficientism -- 1.2.3.A theory based on the difference principle -- 1.2.4.Extreme libertarianism -- 1.2.5.Some other theories of distributive justice -- 1.3.Desertism about Distributive Justice -- 2.Desert Claims and Their Justification -- 2.1.Desert as a Form of Requirement -- 2.2.Some Examples of Desert -- 2.3.On the Adicity of Desert -- 2.4.The Justification of Desert Claims -- 2.4.1.Consequentialist justifications -- 2.4.2.Institutional justifications of desert claims -- 2.4.3.Appraising attitudes and the justification of desert claims -- 2.5.More Concerning the Justification of Desert Claims -- 3.Four Forms of Desertism -- 3.1.Cosmic Desertism about Distributive Justice -- 3.2.Approximations to Perfect Justice -- 3.3.Desertism about Divine Distributive Justice -- 3.4.Desertism about Earthly Moral Justice -- 3.5.Desertism about Political Economic Distributive Justice -- 3.6.Four Forms of Desertism -- 4.Political Economic Deserts and Desert Bases -- 4.1.Aristotle and Community Essential Needs -- 4.2.What We Deserve From Our Countries -- 4.2.1.Security -- 4.2.2.Opportunity -- 4.2.3.Legitimate entitlement -- 4.2.4.Political rights -- 4.2.5.Burdens we deserve to bear -- 4.3.Justice, Healthcare, and a Clarification of My Aims -- 4.4.Some Things that are Not Political Economic Deserts and Bases -- Appendix: Digression: Desert of Wages -- 5.Desertism and Some Competitors -- 5.1.Egalitarianism -- 5.2.Luck Egalitarianism -- 5.3.Sufficientism -- 5.4.The Difference Principle -- 5.5.Extreme Libertarianism -- 6.The Priority View -- 6.1.A Puzzle about Prioritarianism -- 6.2.An Interpretation of the Priority View -- 6.3.A Different Approach to Prioritarianism -- 6.4.Desertism and Prioritarianism Compared -- 6.5.Is Prioritarianism Intended to be a Theory of Justice? -- 7.Rawls Against Desertism -- 7.1.Some Rawlsian Remarks about Desertism -- 7.2.The Equal Worth/Unequal Shares Argument -- 7.3.The Circularity/Priority Argument -- 7.4.The Deserve to Deserve Argument -- 7.5.The Impracticality Argument -- 7.6.Conclusion on Rawls against Desertism -- 8.Feinberg on Comparative and Noncomparative Justice -- 8.1.Feinberg's Distinction and its Implications for PED -- 8.2.Feinberg's Examples and What They Show -- 8.2.1.God's infinite mercy -- 8.2.2.Punishing one as a warning to others -- 8.2.3.Gratuitous benefaction -- 8.2.4.Unequal inheritances -- 8.3.A New Example -- 8.4.Two Conceptions of Justice or Two Varieties of Desert? -- 9.Concluding Remarks -- 9.1.Some Things I Have Tried to Do -- 9.2.Remaining Unfinished Business -- 9.2.1.Flourishing as a human being -- 9.2.2.Justice for all: or members only? -- 9.2.3.More on approximations to perfect justice.

Summary

This volume presents and defends a novel theory of distributive justice, according to which political economic distributive justice reigns in a state if the government of that state ensures that citizens receive the benefits and burdens they deserve from it.

Subject(s)

Distributive justice

ISBN

9780191826214 (ebook)

Audience Notes

Specialized.

Note

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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