Deep Disagreements on Social and Political Justice: Their Meta-Ethical Relevance and the Need for a New Research Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. List of Abbreviations IX
4. Introduction: Two Opposing Conceptions of Distributive Justice 1
5. Part I: Deep Disagreements
6. Deep Disagreements on Social and Political Justice: Their Meta-Ethical Relevance and the Need for a New Research Perspective 23
7. Are There Irreconcilable Conceptions of Justice? Critical Remarks on Isaiah Berlin 53
8. Equality beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Walzer’s Contribution to the Theory of Justice 71
9. Stuart Hampshire and the Case for Procedural Justice 91
10. Public Reason in Circumstances of Pluralism 109
11. Does Rawls’s First Principle of Justice Allow for Consensus? A Note 127
12. Part II: Ancient Perspectives and Critiques of the Centrality of Justice
13. Aristotle on Natural Right 133
14. What Is “Just in Distribution” in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics – Too Much Justice, Too Little Right 151
15. Justice in Ethics and Political Philosophy: A Fundamental Critique 171
16. Justicitis 187
17. Part III: The Problem of Consensus
18. Rawls on Overlapping Disagreement and the Problem of Reconciliation 207
19. Public Reason, Compromise within Consensus, and Legitimacy 225
20. From Consensus to Modus Vivendi? Pluralistic Approaches to the Challenge of Moral Diversity and Conflict 243
21. What Bonds Citizens in a Pluralistic Democracy? Probing Mouffe’s Notion of a Conflictual Consensus 259
22. Citizenship, Community, and the Rule of Law: With or Without Consensus? 275
23. Political Liberalism: The Burdens of Judgement and Moral Psychology 291
24. Part IV: Expanding the Perspective on Obligations
25. John Rawls and Claims of Climate Justice: Tensions and Prospects 311
26. Assistance, Emergency Relief and the Duty Not to Harm – Rawls’ and Cosmopolitan Approaches to Distributive Justice Combined 329
27. Global Collective Obligations, Just International Institutions and Pluralism 345
28. Intergenerational Justice in the Age of Genetic Manipulation 361
29. Part V: Diversifying the Perspective
30. The Contours of Toleration: A Relational Account 385
31. Constructing Public Distributive Justice: On the Method of Functionalist Moral Theory 403
32. Respect as an Object of Equal Distribution? Opacity, Individual Recognition and Second-Personal Authority 423
33. Responsibility and Justice: Beyond Moral Egalitarianism and Rational Consensus 441
34. Habermas’s and Rawls’s Postsecular Modesty 449
35. Part VI: The Difference Principle
36. A Defense of the Difference Principle beyond Rawls 469
37. Marxist Critiques of the Difference Principle 487
38. Part VII: The Economic Perspective: Adam Smith
39. Justice, Equity, and Distribution: Adam Smith’s Answer to John Rawls’s Difference Principle 505
40. Statism and Distributive Injustice in Adam Smith 523
41. Notes on Contributors 541
42. Author Index 545
43. Subject Index 551