Justice: what's the right thing to do?

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Title: Justice : what's the right thing to do?

Contains: Introduction: Doing the right thing -- Utilitarianism : Bentham and J.S. Mill -- Libertarianism -- John Locke -- Markets and morals -- Immanuel Kant -- John Rawls -- Affirmative action -- Aristotle -- Liberals and communitarians -- Conclusion: Reconnecting politics and morals.

Contributor: Sandel, Michael J. [Author]

imprint: New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009

Issue: 1. ed.

Extent: 308 S.; 24 cm

Language: English

ISBN: 0374532508; 9780374532505; 9780374180652; 0374180652

RVK notation: CC 7600 : Rechtsphilosophie
CC 7500 : Allgemeine und übergreifende Abhandlungen

Keywords: Gerechtigkeit > Wert > Ethik

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Footnote: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references and index

Description: Doing the right thing -- The greatest happiness principle : utilitarianism -- Do we own ourselves? : libertarianism -- Hired help : markets and morals -- What matters is the motive : Immanuel Kant -- The case for equality : John Rawls -- Arguing affirmative action -- Who deserves what? : Aristotle -- What do we owe one another? : dilemmas of loyalty -- Justice and the common good

Popular Harvard professor Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of markets in fresh and illuminating ways

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