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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... monism as such , and that Pogge has failed to identify a relevant problem for my position . Section 6 ( Pogge's Failure to Address the Standard Case ) examines Pogge's quite minute , and misguided , critique of what I say about ...
... monism is supposed to be . My ambitions are not general in this domain : I simply contrive to refute the actual reasons that Rawlsians give for why citizens need not pursue dis- tributive justice in the particular way that they would if ...
G. A. Cohen. monism ( Murphy's ) , 373–374 , 394-398 moral arbitrariness , 17 , 89-92 , 96 , 100 , 104-105 , 111-113 , 151–164 , 166-168 , 170 , 172 , 271 , 301 , 333 , 382 , 409 moral division of labor , 8-11 , 174 moral realism , 230 ...
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Preface χν | 1 |
The Incentives Argument | 27 |
Testing the Incentives Argument | 48 |
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