A Treatise on Social Justice. Volume 1 Theories of Justice: A Treatise on Social Justice, Vol. 1

Will Jones in addition provided me with extensive and valuable detailed comments in writing. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge a large debt to the Huntington Library in San Marino for offering a haven from the heat and the telephone-with a congenial Series Copyright Contents PART I Don’t Shoot the Trumpeter! Problems of Fair Division 1 The Case of the Noxious Neighbors 1. Two Theories of Justice 2. Bargaining and Arbitration 3. Two Lectures 4. Braithwaite versus Nash 5. Bargaining and Equal Utility Gain 2 What Is a Fair Solution? 6. Fair Division of the Cooperative Surplus 7. Alternative Baselines 8. What's Wrong with Threat Advantage? 9. Baseline-Independence 10. A Resourcist Solution 3 Fair Division from a Wider Perspective 11. Introduction 12. The Elusiveness of Utility 13. Implications 14. Social Rules and Fair Division 15. Smoking and Contemporary Mores 16. Conclusion to Part I PART II Hume and Rawls on Justice in Society 4 Hume on Justice 17. Introduction 18. The Circumstances of Justice 19. Justice and Impartiality 20. Implications of the Two Theories for the Rules of Justice 21. Hume's Legacy as a Problem of Fair Division 5 Rawls on Justice (1): International and Intergenerational Justice 22. The Circumstances of Justice 23. International Justice 24. Intergenerational Justice 25. Why Not Noah's Ark? 6 Rawls on Justice (2): The Difference Principle 26. Introduction 27. From Equal Opportunity to Equality 28. From Equality to the Difference Principle 29. Why a Cooperative Venture? 30. Why Mutual Advantage? PART III Justice as Mutual Advantage versus Justice as Impartiality 7 Some Questions of Method 31. Introduction 32. Intuitionism 33. Constructivism 34. Is Constructivism a Form of Intuitionism? 35. Justice as Impartiality 8 Constructing Theories of Justice (1): Two-Stage Theories 36. Introduction 37. Two-Stage Foundations of Social Institutions 38. Fair Division and Social Justice 9 Constructing Theories of Justice (2): Original Position Theories 39. Introduction 40. Justice as Fairness 41. Constructing an Original Position 42. Original Positions without Self-Interest 10 Conclusion 43. The Subject of Social Justice 44. Justice and Motivation 45. The Content of Justice 46. Envoi Appendix A: Braithwaite's Solution and Rationale Appendix B: Splitting the Difference as a Bargaining Solution Appendix C: Economic Motivation in a Rawlsian Society Notes PREFACE CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C Index What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy, Theories of Justice stands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls's A Theory of Justice.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-intere