Rescuing Justice and EqualityIn this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people’s material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate deep inequality. |
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... critique , from a political point of view . But the ( often merely implicit ) form of the feminist critique , which we get when we ab- stract from its gender - centered content , is that choices not regulated by the law fall within the ...
... critique of the difference principle itself are there in the relevant chapters2 : I just failed expressly to deploy them to that end . The point can be made by reference to my critique of the Pareto argu- ment in Chapter 2 , which ...
... critique of the incentives argument is a critique of an argument for inequality . I object to its failure to provide a promised comprehensive justification of inequality . My political disapproval of the inequality that the incentives ...
Contents
Preface χν | 1 |
The Incentives Argument | 27 |
Testing the Incentives Argument | 48 |
Copyright | |
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