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Social Justice

ISBN: 978-1-405-11146-1

February 2004

Wiley-Blackwell

336 pages

Description
This reader brings together classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.

  • A collection of classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.
  • Includes classic discussions of justice by Locke and Hume.
  • Provides broad coverage of contemporary discussions, including theoretical pieces by John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin.
  • Contains papers that apply theories of justice to concrete issues, such as gender and the family, the market, world poverty, cultural rights, and future generations.
  • Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students.
About the Author
Matthew Clayton is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Warwick.

Andrew Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading, and has recently held visiting positions at Harvard and Yale. They are editors of The Ideal of Equality (2000).

Features

  • A collection of classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.

  • Includes classic discussions of justice by Locke and Hume.

  • Provides broad coverage of contemporary discussions, including theoretical pieces by John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin.

  • Contains papers that apply theories of justice to concrete issues, such as gender and the family, the market, world poverty, cultural rights, and future generations.

  • Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students.