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Justice for Here and Now

James P Sterba author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th May '98

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James Sterba develops a conception of justice deriving from libertarianism and then applies it to a wide range of issues.

This book conveys the breadth and interconnectedness of questions of justice - a rarity in contemporary moral and political philosophy. James P. Sterba argues that a minimal notion of rationality requires morality, and that a minimal libertarian morality requires the welfare and equal opportunity endorsee by welfare liberals and the equality endorsed by socialists, as well as a full feminist agenda. Feminist, racial, homosexual, and multicultural justice, are also shown to be mutually supporting. The author further shows the compatibility between anthropocentric and biocentric environmental ethics, as between just war and pacifist theories. Finally, he spells out when normal politics, legal protest, civil disobedience, revolutionary action, and criminal disobedience are morally permitted by justice for here and now. This highly original and potentially controversial book is ideal for courses in moral and political philosophy, applied ethics, women's studies, environmental studies, and peace studies.

' … has something constructive to say on a wide range of issues: libertarianism, feminism, anthropocentrism, multiculturalism and pacifism, among others.' The Philosophical Quarterly

  • Winner of Book of the Year Award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy 1998

ISBN: 9780521621885

Dimensions: 235mm x 159mm x 21mm

Weight: 541g

260 pages