Forms of Justice

Critical Perspectives on David Miller's Political Philosophy

Edited by Daniel A. Bell, Avner de-Shalit

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Publication date:

28 October 2002

Length of book:

400 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742580404

What is justice? Great political philosophers from Plato to Rawls have traditionally argued that there is a single, principled answer to this question. Challenging this conventional wisdom, David Miller theorized that justice can take many different forms. In Forms of Justice, a distinguished group of political philosophers takes Miller's theory as a starting point and debates whether justice takes one form or many. Drawing real world implications from theories of justice and examining in depth social justice, national justice, and global justice, this book falls on the cutting edge of the latest developments in political theory. Sure to generate debate among political theorists and social scientists, Forms of Justice is indispensable reading for anyone attentive to the intersection between philosophy and politics.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Social Justice
Chapter 3 Social Justice: Why Does It Matter What the People Think?
Chapter 4 The Political Conditions of Social Justice
Chapter 5 Meritocracy, Desert and the Moral Force of Intuitions
Chapter 6 Desert and Luck
Chapter 7 Markets and Desert
Chapter 8 National Justice
Chapter 9 Social Justice and the Nation State: A Modest Attack
Chapter 10 What Rights for Illiberal Communities?
Chapter 11 Deliberative Democracy: Guarantee for Justice or Preventing Injustice?
Chapter 12 Minority Participation and Civic Education in Deliberative Democracies
Chapter 13 Territorial Resolutions in Divided Societies
Chapter 14 The Liberal Limits of Republican Nationality
Chapter 15 Is Republican Citizenship Appropriate for the Modern World?
Chapter 16 Global Justice
Chapter 17 Republicanism, Patriotism, and Global Justice
Chapter 18 Miller on Distributive Justice
Chapter 19 Entitlements, Obligations, and Distributive Justice: The Global Level
Chapter 20 Global Egalitarianism: An Undefensible Theory of Justice?
Chapter 21 Nonbasic Environmental Goods and Social Justice
Chapter 22 Forms of Justice
Chapter 23 A Response

Rich, rewarding and refreshingly non-doctrinaire. . . . Paying tribute to David Miller's contextualized approach to issues of social and national justice, the contributors to this volume bring out the necessity of finding a balance between principles andpluralism in any responsible discourse on justice which would be of use in a perplexing and ever-changing world. This volume also shows how in their quest for justice, political philosophers need to go beyond a veil of ignorance by showing respect topeople's belief system and historical values in all their sometimes confusing variety???