A short history of distributive justice /
Publisher description: 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 o...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith
- Two kinds of justice
- The right of necessity
- Property rights
- Communal experiments and Utopian writings
- Poor laws
- 2. The eighteenth century
- Citizen quality: Rousseau
- Changing our picture of the poor: Smith
- The equal worth of human beings: Kant
- To the Vendôme Palais de Justice: Babeuf
- 3. From Babeuf to Rawls
- Reaction
- Positivists
- Marx
- Utilitarians
- Rawls
- After Rawls
