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What is social justice? In Theories Of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality.
List of contents
Preface
PART I DON'T SHOOT THE TRUMPETER!
PROBLEMS OF fAIR DIVISION
CHAPTER 1. THE CASE OF THE NOXIOUS NEIGHBORS
1. Two Theories of]ustice
2. Bargaining and Arbitration
3. Two Lectures
4. Braithwaite versus Nash
5. Bargaining and Equal Utility Gain
CHAPTER 2. WHAT IS A FAIR SOLUTION?
6. Fair Division of the Cooperative Surplus
7. Alternative Baselines
8. What's Wrong with Threat Advantage?
9. Baseline-Independence
10. A Resourcist Solution
CHAPTER 3. FAIR DIVISION FROM A WIDER PERSPECTIVE
11. Introduction
12. The Elusiveness of Utility
13. Implications
14. Social Rules and Fair Division
15. Smoking and Contemporary Mores
16. Conclusion to Part I
PART II HUME AND RAWLS ON JUSTICE IN SOCIETY
CHAPTER 4. HUME ON jUSTICE
17. Introduction
18. The Circumstances ofJustice
19. Justice and Impartiality
20. Implications of the Two Theories for the Rules of Justice
21. Hume's Legacy as a Problem of Fair Division
CHAPTER 5. RAWLS ON jUSTICE (1): INTERNATIONAL
AND INTERGENERATIONALjUSTICE
22. The Circumstances of Justice
23. International Justice
24. Intergenerational Justice
25. Why Not Noah's Ark?
CHAPTER 6. RAWLS ON jUSTICE (2): THE DIFFERENCE
PRINCIPLE
26. Introduction
27. From Equal Opportunity to Equality
28. From Equality to the Difference Principle
29. Why a Cooperative Venture?
30. Why Mutual Advantage?
PART III JUSTICE AS MUTUAL ADVANTAGE VERSUS
JUSTICE AS IMPARTIALITY
CHAPTER 7. SOME QUESTIONS OF METHOD
31. Introduction
32. Intuitionism
33. Constructivism
34. Is Constructivism a Form of Intuitionism?
35. Justice as Impartiality
CHAPTER 8. CONSTRUCTING THEORIES oF JUSTICE (1): Two-STAGE THEORIES
36. Introduction
37. Two-Stage Foundations of Social Institutions
38. Fair Division and Social Justice
CHAPTER 9. CONSTRUCTING THEORIES OF JUSTICE (2): ORIGINAL POSITION THEORIES
39. Introduction
40. Justice as Fairness
41. Constructing an Original Position
42. Original Positions without Self-Interest
CHAPTER 10. CONCLUSION
43. The Subject of Social Justice
44. Justice and Motivation
45. The Content of Justice
46. Envoi
Appendix A Braithwaite's Solution and Rationale
Appendix B Splitting the Difference as a Bargaining Solution
Appendix C Economic Motivation in a Rawlsian Society
Notes
Index
About the author
Brian Barry is Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and author of Political Argument, among other titles.
Summary
What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy, Theories of Justice stands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls's A Theory of Justice.
