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Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve From Our Country
This book presents and defends a novel theory of distributive justice, according to which political economic distributive justice reigns in a state if the government of that state ensures that citizens receive the benefits and burdens they deserve from it.
| Author(s) | By Fred Feldman (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 280 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 14 Jul 2016 |
| Availability | Available |
This book presents and defends a novel theory of distributive justice, according to which political economic distributive justice reigns in a state if the government of that state ensures that citizens receive the benefits and burdens they deserve from it.
0: Introduction 1: Locating the Target 2: Desert Claims and Their Justification 3: Four Forms of Desertism 4: Political Economic Deserts and Desert Bases 5: Desertism and Some Competitors 6: The Priority View 7: Rawls Against Desertism 8: Feinberg
Fred Feldman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2013. His research primarily focuses on normative ethics, metaethics, the nature of happiness, and justice.
