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A Theory of Justice
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Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Theory
- Chapter 1: Justice as fairness
- Role of justice
- Subject of justice
- Main idea of the theory of justice
- Original position and justification
- Classical utilitarianism
- Some related contrasts
- Intuitionism
- Priority problem
- Some remarks about moral theory
- Chapter 2: Principles of justice
- Institutions and formal justice
- Two principles of justice
- Interpretations of the second principle
- Democratic equality and the difference principle
- Fair equality of opportunity and pure procedural justice
- Primary social goods as the basis of expectations
- Relevant social positions
- Tendency to equality
- Principles for individuals: the principle of fairness
- Principles for individuals: the natural duties
- Chapter 3: Original position
- Nature of the argument for conceptions of justice
- Presentation of alternatives
- Circumstances of justice
- Formal constraints off the concept of right
- Veil of ignorance
- Rationality of the parties
- Reasoning leading to the two principles of justice
- Reasoning leading to the principle of average utility
- Some difficulties with the average principle
- Some main grounds for the two principles of justice
- Classical utilitarianism, impartiality, and benevolence. Part 2: Institutions
- Chapter 4: Equal liberty
- Four-stage sequence
- Concept of liberty
- Equal liberty of conscience
- Toleration and the common interest
- Toleration of the intolerant
- Political justice and the constitution
- Limitations on the principle of participation
- Rule of law
- Priority of liberty defined
- Kantian interpretation of justice as fairness
- Chapter 5: Distributive shares
- Concept of justice in political economy
- Some remarks about economic systems
- Background institutions for distributive justice
- Problem of justice between generations
- Time preference
- Further cases of priority
- Precepts of justice
- Legitimate expectations and moral desert
- Comparison with mixed conceptions
- Principle of perfection
- Chapter 6: Duty and obligation
- Arguments for the principles of natural duty
- Arguments for the principle of fairness
- Duty to comply with an unjust law
- Status of majority rule
- Definition of civil disobedience
- Definition of conscientious refusal
- Justification of civil disobedience
- Justification of conscientious refusal
- Role of civil disobedience. Part 3: Ends
- Chapter 7: Goodness as rationality
- Need for a theory of the good
- Definition of good for simpler cases
- Note on meaning
- Definition of good for plans of life
- Deliberative rationality
- Aristotelian principle
- Definition of good applied to persons
- Self-respect, excellences, and shame
- Several contrasts between the right and the good
- Chapter 8: Sense of justice
- Concept of a well-ordered society
- Morality of authority
- Morality of association
- Morality of principles
- Features of the moral sentiments
- Connection between moral and natural attitudes
- Principles of moral psychology
- Problem of relative stability
- Basis of equality
- Chapter 9: Good of justice
- Autonomy and objectivity
- Idea of social union
- Problem of envy
- Envy and equality
- Grounds for the priority of liberty
- Happiness and dominant ends
- Hedonism as a method of choice
- Unity of the self
- Good of the sense of justice
- Concluding remarks on justification
- Index.