Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Short History of Distributive JusticeCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0674018311EAN: 9780674018310ISBN: 9780674018310Publisher: Harvard University PressRelease Date: 09/01/2005Description: Distributive justice in its modern sense calls on the state to guarantee that everyone is supplied with a certain level of material means. Samuel Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to the poor is a modern idea, developed only in the last two centuries.Earlier notions of justice, including Aristotle’s, were concerned with the distribution of political office, not of property. It was only in the eighteenth century, in the work of philosophers such as Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, that justice began to be applied to the problem of poverty. To attribute a longer pedigree to distributive justice is to fail to distinguish between justice and charity.Fleischacker explains how confusing these principles has created misconceptions about the historical development of the welfare state. Socialists, for instance, often claim that modern economics obliterated ancient ideals of equality and social justice. Free-market promoters agree but applaud the apparent triumph of skepticism and social-scientific rigor. Both interpretations overlook the gradual changes in thinking that yielded our current assumption that justice calls for everyone, if possible, to be lifted out of poverty. By examining major writings in ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy, Fleischacker shows how we arrived at the contemporary meaning of distributive justice.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 11mmAuthor: Samuel FleischackerGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityItem Weight: 318gType: Politics & GovernmentTopic: History, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Short History of Distributive Justice
Title: A Short History of Distributive Justice
ISBN-10: 0674018311
EAN: 9780674018310
ISBN: 9780674018310
Release Date: 09/01/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 204 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Short History of Distributive Justice
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: History & Theory, General, Political
Publication Year: 2005
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Law, Philosophy, Political Science
Author: Samuel Fleischacker
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
