Theories of Justice and Rights

This volume is a typescript by J. L. Mackie that was prepared for an Oxford seminar series. It elaborates Mackie's own theory of justice and rights, and criticizes those of John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Robert Nozick.

List of contents

• Editors' Introduction


• Theories of Justice and Rights


• I.: Preliminaries


• II.: Sketch of My Own Position


• III.: Rawls's Theory of Justice


• IV.: Nozick's Minimal State


• Appendix 1. Can There Be a Right-Based Moral Theory?


• Appendix 2. Rights, Utility, and External Costs

About the author

Victor Moberger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University. He specializes in metaethics and has published several articles relating to the work of J. L. Mackie and the debate between moral realism and anti-realism.

Jonas Olson is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. He is the author of Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence (OUP, 2014) and of several articles on metaethics and the history of moral philosophy. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory (OUP, 2015).

Summary

This volume is a typescript by J. L. Mackie that was prepared for an Oxford seminar series. It elaborates Mackie's own theory of justice and rights, and criticizes those of John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Robert Nozick.

Product details

• Authors: J. L. Mackie
• Assisted by: Victor Moberger (Editor), Jonas Olson (Editor), Olson Jonas (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2024
• EAN: 9780198917403
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891740-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy