Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 695 g
Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 695 g
Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-19-824079-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This book sets forth a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons.
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Introduction; Part I. Equality of Fortune: The presumption in favor of equal shares; Voluntary choices and emergent inequalities; Ineluctable risks: illness and injury; Occupational preferences, effort, and desert; Unequal endowments; Gifts, bequests, and intergenerational obligations; Justice and the transfer of body parts; Part II. Corrective Justice: The problem of liability rules: the failings of wealth maximization as a normative ideal; Outline of a theory of
corrective justice; Illustrations; Part III. Saving and Taking Life: Do numbers count when saving lives?; The relevance of personal characteristics to choices between lives; Killing people or animals to benefit others; Envoi; Bibliography; Index




