Download or read book Eclectic Distributional Ethics written by John E. Roemer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilitarians, egalitarians, prioritarians, and sufficientarians each provide examples of situations demonstrating, often compellingly, that a sensible ethical observer must adopt their view and reject the others. We argue, to the contrary, that an attractive ethic is eclectic, in the sense of coinciding with these apparently different views in different regions of the space of social states.
Download or read book Distributive Justice written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Aggregations and Distributional Ethics written by Satya R. Chakravarty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranking social states using individual rankings, strategic and non-strategic behaviors of individuals, ethical issues in distributional analysis.
Download or read book What is Enough written by Carina Fourie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufficientarian approaches maintain that justice should aim for each person to have "enough". But what is sufficiency? What does it imply for health or health care justice? In this volume, philosophers, bioethicists, health policy-makers, and health economists assess sufficiency and its application to health and health care in fifteen original contributions.
Download or read book Distributive Justice written by John A. Ryan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsignor John Augustine Ryan was a leading moral theologian, priest, professor, author, and social justice advocate. Ryan lived during a decisive moment in the development of Catholic social teaching within the United States. The largest influx of immigrants in America's history, the emancipation of American slaves, and the industrial revolution had produced a new social climate in the early twentieth century, and the Church faced increasing pressure to take a stance on questions of social reform. Drawing upon Aristotelian notions of natural law ethics, Ryan outlines a very contemporary liberal concept of the just distribution of profit in relation to contribution, merit, and special talents.
Download or read book Need Based Distributive Justice written by Stefan Traub and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence. The core idea is that need-based distributive justice may have some legitimatory advantages over other important principles of distribution, like equality and equity, and therefore involves less dispute over the distribution and redistribution of scarce resources. In seven chapters, eleven scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, sociology, political science and economics outline the normative and positive building blocks of such a theory by critically reviewing the literature on distributive justice from their respective disciplinary perspectives. They address important theoretical and practical issues concerning the rationality of needs identification at the individual level and the recognition of needs at the societal level. They also investigate whether and how the dynamics of distribution procedures that allocate resources according to the need principle leads to social stability, focusing on the economic incentives that arise from need-based redistribution. The final chapter provides a synthesis and outlines a framework for a theory of justice based on ten hypotheses derived from the insights presented.
Download or read book The Ethics of Redistribution written by Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethics of Redistribution was originally delivered as a Boutwood Lecture at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1949. The Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel was then an already internationally regarded philosopher whose learned style was a calculated blend of moral. historical and political considerations. In this essay, split between discussions of the socialist ideal and state expenditure, he presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.
Download or read book Just Enough written by Liam Shields and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic clarification and defence of Sufficientarianism 'having enough' as a demand of justiceLiam Shields systematically clarifies and defends the political philosophy of Sufficientarianism, which insists that securing enough of some things, such as food, healthcare and education, is a crucial demand of justice. By engaging in practical debates about critical issues such as child-rearing and global justice, the author sheds light on the potential implications of suffientarianism on the social policies that affect our daily lives. Key FeaturesThe first book-length treatment of sufficiency as a demand of justiceCritically discusses the relative merits of sufficiency compared to equality or priority Makes a new contribution to debates in political theory about autonomy and upbringing from a sufficientarian perspective
Download or read book A New Approach to Utilitarianism written by C.L. Sheng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.1 Utilitarian Theories This book is a monograph on moral philosophy and social philosophy, particularly the part of the philosophy of economics that is related to the general distribution problem. It presents a comprehensive ethical theory, together with an application of the theory to distributive justice. The viewpoint of this theory is utilitarian. However, this theory is different in some crucial points, as well as in minor details, from all existing forms of utilitarianism. Moral philosophy deals essentially with the moral judgment of actions, i. e., whether a moral action is right or wrong, good or bad. The judgment is usually based on a line of logical reasoning, which can be traced to a final reason called the justification or ultimate principle. An ethical theory is a self-consistent system built upon a basic, or ultimate, principle. An ultimate principle can never be rigorously proven, and is not unique. Different philosophers establish different ethical theories upon different principles. Therefore, in the history of development of moral philosophy, there have been a large number of ethical theories and schools. Even wi thin the same school having the same ultimate principle, different philosophers may have different versions of the theory, because of small variations in the interpretation of the ultimate principle or in the elaboration of the details.
Download or read book The Basic Minimum written by Dale Dorsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a sustained defense of the claim that the basic social minimum should be characterized in terms of human welfare.
Download or read book Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 8 written by David Sobel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy'. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
Download or read book Distributive Justice written by Fred Feldman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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. The book starts with a more precise characterization of the target of this inquiry - political economic distributive justice. It then proceeds to explicate the concept of desert, evaluate proposed ways of justifying desert claims, formulate a number of desertist theories of justice, and draw out the special features of the version defended here. Once the proposed form of desertism has been stated, its implications are compared to those of egalitarianism, luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, the difference principle, libertarianism, and prioritarianism, with the aim of showing that desertism yields more attractive results in cases that prove difficult for other theories currently being discussed in the literature. Arguments - especially arguments deriving from Rawls -- against desertism are explained and shown to be ineffective. There is discussion of the distinction between comparative and non-comparative justice. Emphasis is placed on the distinction between (a) theories about the moral rightness of distributions, (b) theories about the intrinsic value of distributions, and (c) theories specifically about the justice of distributions. There is discussion of the unfortunate results of confusion of these different sorts of theory. The views of Rawls, Nozick, Parfit, Frankfurt, Feinberg and others are discussed. A version of the method of reflective equilibrium is explained and defended. The book concludes with a series of admissions concerning puzzles that remain unsolved.
Download or read book Why Inequality Matters written by Shlomi Segall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equality is a key concept in our moral and political vocabulary. There is wide agreement on its instrumental value and its favourable impact on many aspects of society, but less certainty over whether it has a non-instrumental or intrinsic value that can be demonstrated. In this project, Shlomi Segall explores and defends the view that it does. He argues that the value of equality is not reducible to a concern we might have for the worse off, or to ensuring that individuals do not fall into poverty and destitution; instead he claims that undeserved inequalities, wherever and whenever we might find them, are bad in themselves. Assessing the strength of competing accounts, such as sufficientarianism and prioritarianism, he brings together for the first time discussions of the moral value of equality with luck- or responsibility-sensitive accounts of distributive justice. His book will interest readers in political and moral philosophy.
Download or read book Having Too Much written by Ingrid Robeyns and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in economic and political thought. One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as Plato, Aquinas, and Spinoza. But Having Too Much is the first time in contemporary political philosophy that limitarianism is explored at length and in detail. Bringing together in one place the best writing from key theorists of limitarianism, this book is an essential contribution to political philosophy in general, and theories of distributive justice in particular. Including some of the key published articles as well as new chapters, Having Too Much is necessary reading for scholars and students of political theory and philosophy, as well as anyone interested in questions of distributive justice.
Download or read book Handbook of Equality of Opportunity written by Mitja Sardoč and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethics of Distribution written by Theron Pummer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any badly off person we consider, there could be someone who is much worse off. For example, suppose that Jane is the currently worst off person. Jane is so miserable that her life is worth not living. Nonetheless, one would be much worse off than Jane if one were as miserable as her at each time, but lived for much longer. Since there could be such persons who would live indefinitely longer than Jane, there could be persons who would be indefinitely worse off than Jane. I call such extremely badly off persons Priority Monsters. The possibility of Priority Monsters raises new and important challenges in the ethics of distribution, an area of ethics which addresses how we ought to distribute benefits and burdens across separate persons. The principal challenge I focus on is how to avoid the conclusion that, if such Priority Monsters existed, we would be morally required to benefit them, no matter how little we provide them, at the expense of doing much more good for others, like Jane, who are themselves significantly badly off. Most of us find this conclusion very hard to accept - surely if it were between sparing Jane of many years of misery and sparing a Priority Monster of a mild headache, we should do the former. Utilitarian principles of distribution say that we ought to maximize the overall sum of benefits. Egalitarian and prioritarian principles place special moral weight on achieving benefits for persons who are worse off. Many contemporary philosophers contend that the latter principles are more plausible than utilitarian principles. I argue that while utilitarian principles easily and naturally avoid implausible conclusions about Priority Monsters, egalitarian and prioritarian cannot plausibly avoid such conclusions. Utilitarian principles thus avoid a significant difficulty that these other principles face, and they might therefore be more plausible, overall, than their non-utilitarian rivals.
Download or read book Distributive Justice Classic Reprint written by John Augustine Ryan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Distributive Justice The volume in hand represents an attempt to discuss systematically and comprehensively the justice of the processes by which the product of industry is distributed. Inasmuch as the product is actually apportioned among landowners, capitalists, business men, and labourers, the moral aspects of the distribution are studied with refer ence to these four classes. While their rights and obliga tions form the main subject of the book, the effort is also made to propose reforms that would remove the principal defects of the present system and bring about a larger measure of justice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
