How to make opportunity equal : race and contributive justice / Paul Gomberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomberg, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Justice (Philosophy).

Social ethics.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

vii, 184 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Summary:

Distributive injustices such as low pay, inferior healthcare and housing, as well as diminished opportunities in school continue to blight the lives of millions of the urban poor in America and beyond. This book announces a new theory of justice. Paul Gomberg: focuses on how race and class structure unequal life prospects, shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labor, maintains that true equality of opportunity comes only when all labor, both routine and complex, is shared, proposes a new paradigm for the theory of justice. While Rawls, Sen, Nozick, and Walzer conceive justice as addressing how various goods are fairly obtained or distributed, Gomberg argues that justice in distribution must advance contributive opportunities and duties. On Gomberg's contributive theory of justice, each person contributes to society not for individual material gain, but from a sense of what is required in order to build just relations with others. Passionate and radical, but rigorously argued, this book makes a vital and original contribution to philosophy and social thought.

Contents:

Who toils? : race, equal opportunity, and the division of labor

Against leveling the playing field

Against limiting opportunity

Egalitarianism of opportunity and other egalitarianisms

Can everyone be esteemed?

Opportunity for what? : defending the constellation

Sharing labor

Transforming relationships

Is inequality necessary?

Are some born smarter than others?

Race and political philosophy

Justice and markets

Contributive justice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [170]-177) and index.

ISBN:

9781405160810

1405160810

9781405160827

1405160829

OCLC:

75389836