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  title info:
    title: Justice for earthlings
    sub title: essays in political philosophy
  name:
    name part: Miller, David
    name part: 1946-
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 254 pages)
  abstract: "In the past few decades social changes have impacted how we understand justice, as societies become both more multicultural and more interconnected globally. Much philosophical thought, however, seems to proceed in isolation from these developments. While philosophers from Plato onwards have portrayed justice as an abstract, universal ideal, Miller argues that principles of justice are always rooted in particular social contexts, and connects these ideas to the changing conditions of human life. In this important contribution to political philosophy, it is argued that philosophers need to pay more attention to the way that people actually think about what's fair, and only defend principles that are feasible to apply in the real world. To understand equality of opportunity, for example, we must explore the cultural constraints that people face when presented with life choices. Justice for Earthlings also explains how national boundaries make justice at global level different from social justice"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Political philosophy for earthlings; 2. Two ways to think about justice; 3. Social justice in multicultural societies; 4. Liberalism, equal opportunities and cultural commitments; 5. Equality of opportunity and the family; 6. Justice and boundaries; 7. Social justice versus global justice?; 8. "Are they my poor?" : The problem of altruism in a world of strangers; 9. Taking up the slack? Responsibility and justice in situations of partial compliance; 10. A tale of two cities, or political philosophy as lamentation.
  note: David Miller.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Justice
  classification: JA71 .M4565 2013eb
  classification: 320.01/1
  identifier: 9781107028791 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781107613751 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781139612791 (e-book)
  identifier: 2012037568
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
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    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 120914
    record change date: 20250816205623.0
    record identifier: in00002856559