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Theories of Justice

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University of California Press, 1989 - Philosophy - 428 pages
What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy, Theories of Justice stands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls's A Theory of Justice. What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy, Theories of Justice stands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls's A Theory of Justice.
  

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Contents

The Case of the Noxious Neighbors
3
What Is a Fair Solution?
50
Fair Division from a Wider Perspective
96
Hume on Justice
145
International
179
The Difference
213
Justice as Mutual Advantage versus
255
Conclusion
354
Appendix A Braithwaites Solution and Rationale
377
Appendix B Splitting the Difference as a Bargaining
388
Notes
401
Index
421
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About the author (1989)

Brian Barry is Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and author of Political Argument, among other titles.