Justice

Produktbeschreibung

Justice brings together in one indispensable volume essential readings on justice and moral reasoning. With readings from major thinkers from the classical era up to the present, the collection provides a thematic overview of the concept of justice. Moreover, Sandel's organization of the readings and his own commentaries allow readers to engage with a variety of pressing contemporary issues. Looking at a host of ethical dilemmas, including affirmative action, conscription, income distribution, and gay rights, from a variety of angles--morally, legally, politically--the collection engages with the core concerns of political philosophy: individual rights and the claims of community, equality and inequality, morality and law, and ultimately, justice. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* I. Introduction: Doing the Right Thing


* The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) (The lifeboat case)


* II. Utilitarianism


* Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. I, IV


* J.S. Mill, utilitarianism


* III. Libertarianism


* Friedman, Free to Choose, ch. 5


* Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, pp. 149-64, 167-78


* Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, ch. 6


* IV. Locke: Property Rights


* Locke, Second Treatise of Government, ch. 1-5, 7-11, 18-19


* V. Markets and Morals: Surrogate Motherhood, Military Service


* Calabresi and Bobbit, Tragic Choices, pp. 158-65


* McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 600-11


* Traub, "All Go Down Together"


* In the Matter of Baby 'M' (1987)


* In the Matter of Baby 'M' (1988, N.J. Supreme Court)


* Anderson, "Is Women's Labor a Commodity?"


* VI. Kant: Freedom as Autonomy


* Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals


* Kant, "On the Supposed Right to Lie"


* VII. Rawls: Justice as Fairness


* Rawls, excerpts from A Theory of Justice


* VIII. Distributive Justice: Equality, Entitlement, Merit


* Rawls, excerpts from A Theory of Justice


* Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, pp. 213-31


* IX. Affirmative Action: Reverse Discrimination?


* Bernstein, "Racial Discrimination or Righting Past Wrongs?"


* Hopwood v. State of Texas (1996)


* Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)


* Dworkin, "Bakke's Case: Are Quotas Unfair?"


* Morley, "Double Reverse Discrimination"


* Brus, "Proxy War: Liberals Denounce Racial Profiling. Conservatives Denounce
Affirmative Action. What's the Difference?"


* X. Aristotle: Justice and Virtue


* Aristotle, The Politics, Bks. I, III (ch. 1-13)


* Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Bks II (ch. 1-3), X (ch. 1-3)


* XI. Ability, Disability, and Discrimination: Cheerleaders and golf carts


* Presley, "A Safety Blitz; Texas Cheerleader Loses Status"


* Sandel, "Honor and Resentment"


* Ryan, "Sorry, Free Rides Not Right"


* Kite, "Keep the PGA on Foot"


* PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin (2000)


* XII. Justice, Community, and Membership


* MacIntyre, After Virtue, ch. 15


* Sandel, Democracy's Discontent, pp. 7-17


* Walzer, Spheres of Justice, pp. 6-10, 86-91, 312-314


* XIII. Moral Argument and Liberal Toleration


* Rawls, Political Liberalism, pp. 3-15, 29-35, 144-58


* Sandel, "Political Liberalism"


* XIV. Morality and Law: Same-Sex Marriage, For and Against


* Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health (2003)


* Kinsley, "Abolish Marriage"


* Finnis, "Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation'"


* Macedo, "Homosexuality and the Conservative Mind"


* West, "Universalism, Liberal Theory, and the Problem of Gay Marriage" 

Kritik

Michael Sandel is one of the most popular and influential college professors in America. For more than twenty years, hundreds of students at a time have packed into a Harvard University lecture hall to hear his discourses on justice; and hundreds have streamed out feeling a surprisingly personal connection with their gifted teacher. This book reveals Sandel's secret recipe for enthralling students with timeless questions of law, justice, and morality in a decidedly contemporary context. Anita L. Allen, Professor of Philosophy and Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School 

Autoreninfo

Michael J. Sandel, geboren 1953, ist politischer Philosoph. Er studierte in Oxford und lehrt seit 1980 in Harvard. Seine Vorlesungsreihe über Gerechtigkeit machte ihn zum weltweit populärsten Moralphilosophen.