Justice, democracy and reasonable agreement / Colin Farrelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrelly, Colin Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distributive justice.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Farrelly critically assesses the main contemporary theories of justice, including liberal egalitarianism and right and left variants of libertarianism. He argues against the principled paradigm of ideal theory and champions instead a virtue-oriented theory of justice entitled 'civic liberalism'. Farrelly focuses on three civic virtues - toleration, civility and fairness - and applies the theory of civic liberalism to a number of topics, ranging from constitutional design and free speech to welfare reform and economic incentives. Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement is a plea for political philosophers to take seriously a range of non-ideal considerations such as scarcity, pervasive disadvantage/non-compliance, indeterminacy, disagreement and fallibility. This book helps bridge the gap between political philosophy and real politics.

Contents:

The 'principled paradigm' of ideal theory

The virtues of fair social cooperation

The simplifying assumptions of Rawlsian justice

The cost-blind approach to rights (continued...)

Dualism, incentives and the demands of justice

Should the left embrace left-libertarianism?

A citizens' basic income, workfare and reciprocity

Neutrality and toleration

The 'dialogical model' of judicial review

Deliberative democracy

Concluding thoughts and review.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-247) and index.

ISBN:

1403933197

9781403933195

OCLC:

123912542