The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Elements of Justice, David Schmidtz

Elements of Justice

David Schmidtz

What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due, but what that means in practice depends on context. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, thus, is a constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and unity, but the integrity of justice is limited, in a way that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of a building. A theory of justice is a map of that neighborhood.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 9th, 2006
  • Pages: 254
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.10in - 0.80in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9780521831642
  • Categories: • Political• Ethics & Moral Philosophy

About the Author

Schmidtz, David: - David Schmidtz is Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, and Director of the Program of Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Rational Choice and Moral Agency and co-author, with Robert Goodin, of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. He is editor of Robert Nozick and edited, with Elizabeth Willott, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. His lectures on justice have taken him to sixteen countries and six continents.

More books by David Schmidtz

Book Cover for: Living Together: Inventing Moral Science, David Schmidtz
Book Cover for: Brief History Liberty, David Schmidtz
Book Cover for: Creating Wealth, David Schmidtz
Book Cover for: Commercial Society: A Primer on Ethics and Economics, Cathleen Johnson
Book Cover for: Debating Education: Is There a Role for Markets?, Harry Brighouse
Book Cover for: Person, Polis, Planet: Essays in Applied Philosophy, David Schmidtz
Book Cover for: Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility, David Schmidtz
Book Cover for: El Bienestar Social Y La Responsabilidad Individual, David Schmidtz

Praise for this book

"...(W)hat makes Elements of Justice so rich and compelling is that Schmidtz does not follow the dominant pattern of philosophical argumentation..."
Adam Kadlac, The Hedgehog Review