A comprehensive anthology on justice with readings that offer the different theories on the importance and placement of justice in society.The well-argued, accessible articlesencompass classic to contemporary theories and cover both positive and negative.
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Classical Readings of Justice
Introduction
I. Plato: Justice as Harmony in the Soul and State
II. Aristotle: types of Justice
III. Thomas Hobbes: The contractarian Theory of Justice
IV. David Hume: Justice as Convention
V. Karl Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program
II. Contemporary Theories of Distributive Justice
Introduction
II.A. Libertarianism: Justice as Liberty
John Hospers: The Libertarian Manifesto
Robert Nozick: A Libertarian Theory ol3l