The Concept of Justice and Equality : : On the Dispute between John Rawls and Gerald Cohen / / Eliane Saadé.
Unless considered on a practical level, where a precise distribution of social goods is chosen, John Rawls’s and Gerald Cohen’s approaches to social justice cannot be complementary. Their disagreement about justice and its principles calls for a choice, which opts either for the Rawlsian theory or f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Practical Philosophy ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Rawlsian Theory of Justice
- 2 A Meta-Ethical Theory: Cohen’s Idea of Justice
- 3 A Meta-Ethical Theory: Cohen’s Rescue of Justice
- 4 The Difference Principle
- 5 The Rescue of Equality from the Rawlsian Theory of Justice
- 6 Scrutinizing the Cohenian Rescue of Equality
- 7 The Cohenian Alternative
- 8 Disagreement on the Status of Principles
- 9 Disagreement on the Status of Facts
- 10 Different Understandings of Justice
- Conclusion
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index