TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,G.A.
TI  - Rescuing justice and equality
SN  - 0674030761
AV  - HM821 .C65 2008
U1  - 305.01 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Equality
KW  - Social justice
KW  - Communism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-421) and index; Preface --; Introduction --; The Big Issue --; Rescuing Equality and Justice --; Some Methodological Disagreements --; Justice and Fairness --; The Two Standpoints --; The Greatness of John Rawls --; An Outline of the Book --; Part One; Rescuing Equality from --; 1; The Incentives Argument --; I; The Incentives Argument, The Interpersonal Test, and Community --; Incentives, the Difference Principle, and Equality --; Nigel Lawson's Tax Cut --; On Uttering Arguments in Variable Interpersonal Settings --; The Kidnapper's Argument --; Community, and the Interpersonal Test --; Does the Incentive Argument Pass the Interpersonal Test? --; II; Testing the Incentive Argument --; What Makes the Minor Premiss of the Incentive Argument True? --; Why the Incentive Argument Fails the Interpersonal Test --; The Incentive Argument and Bad Faith --; Should the Poor Reject the Incentive Argument? --; First Persons and Third Persons --; III; Incentives and the Difference Principle --; Strict and Lax Readings of the Difference Principle --; Why Just People Must Practise the Strict Difference Principle --; The Difference Principle and 'daily Life' --; Dignity, Fraternity, and The Difference Principle --; The Difference Principle and 'Mutual Indifference' --; The Difference Principle and the Unjust Society --; 2; The Pareto Argument for Inequality --; Introduction --; The Argument Expounded --; TheArgument Challenged --; The Argument Rejected --; Lab our; Burden in the Metric of Equality --; Inconsistent Metrics --; Raising the Baseline --; Impartiality and Mutual Advantage --; Inequality: A Necessary Evil? --; Conclusion --; 3; The Basic Structure Objection --; Incentives and the Difference Principle: A Review of the Argument --; The 'Basic Structure' Objection --; The 'Basic Structure' Objection: A Preliminary Reply --; The 'Basic Structure' Objection: A More Fundamental Reply --; Who is to Blame? --; Coercive and Non-Coercive Social Structures --; Appendix I; More on Coercion and the Basic Structure --; Appendix II; The Basic Structure is a Structure --; 4; The Difference Principle --; Introduction --; Reconsidering the Difference Principle --; The Moral Arbitrariness Case for the Difference Principle Contradicts its Content --; A Recent Argument for the Difference Principle --; A Contractarian Argument for the Difference Principle --; What is the Moral Arbitrariness of Talent Differences Supposed to Show? --; Chamberlain and Pareto --; Human Nature and Constructivism --; 5; The Freedom Objection --; Introduction --; Equality, Pareto, and Freedom of Choice of Occupatio Freedom in Work --; The Unequal-Income Inference --; Blood, Kidneys, and Sex --; 6; The Facts --; A Statement of my Thesis --; Facts, and Some Meta-Ethical Questions --; What Most Philosophers Think about Facts and Principles --; My Thesis: Ultimate Principles are Fact-Insensitive --; And the Clarity of Mind Requirement --; An Illustration of the Thesis --; More Illustration of the Thesis --; The Argument for the Thesis --; I; A Defence of the First Premiss of the Argument --; II; A Defence of the Second Premiss of the Argument --; III; A Defence of the Third Premiss of the Argument --; Still Further Illustration and Defence of the Thesis --; The Clarity of Mind Requirement --; The Merely Logical Priority of Fact-Insensitive Principles --; The Conditional Character of the Thesis --; On 'Is' and 'Ought' --; On 'Ought' and 'Can' --; Possible Misunderstandings of the Thesis --; The Thesis is not a Causal Thesis --; The Thesis is not a Psychological Thesis --; The Thesis is Neutral with Respect to Central Meta-Ethical Disputes --; Some Bad Rawlsian Arguments that Reject My Thesis --; Utilitarianism, and the Difference Between Fundamental Principles and Rules of Regulation --; The Interest of My Thesis --; Appendix: God --; Part Two; Rescuin Overview --; Fundamental Principles of Justice and Constructivism --; Fundamental Principles of Justice and Constructivism: Matters Arising --; Is Justice the First Virtue of Social Institutions? --; Two Illustrations: Social Insurance, Property Taxation --; Justice and the Pareto Principle --; Justice, and Constraints, Notably Publicity, on Choice of Optimal Rules at Regulation --; Justice and Stability --; The 'Circumstances of Justice' --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Is the Original Position Justification of Principles Contractarian? --; 8; The Publicity Argument --; Andrew Williams on Publicity and the Egalitarian Ethos --; An Anatomy of Williams's Argument --; Racism, Justice, and Assurance --; Does Assurance Williams-type Determinacy? --; Does Justice Require Precision? --; Egalitarian Ethi at Home, in the Market, and in the State --; Publicity as a Desideratum of Justice --; Justice and Occupational Choice --; Conclusion --; General Appendix: Replies to critics --; Public and Private Action --; The Site of Justice is not Where it Gets Caused --; Prior Principles, Self-Respect, and Equality --; Incentives and Prerogatives --; Pogge's Mastergoals and Supergoals --; Pogge's Failure to Address the Standard Case --; The Currency of Distributive Justice and Incentive Inequality
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