Ricoeur, Rawls, and capability justice : civic phronēsis and equality / Molly Harkirat Mann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Molly Harkirat.

Series:

Continuum studies in political philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rawls, John, 1921-2002.

Ricœur, Paul.

Equality.

Justice.

Distributive justice.

Ricœur, Paul--Political and social views.

Rawls, John, 1921-2002--Political and social views.

Rawls, John.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

vi unnumbered pages, 234 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, [2012]

Summary:

Mann (DePaul U., Chicago) examines how economic stratification in Canada and the US reveals a growing compassion gap between rich and poor, between capability and disability. The effort to legitimize the withdrawal of the elite from the civic commons results in the moralization of advantage and of disadvantage, she says. She attributes the situation to dominant philosophical approaches to equality that allow the ethical or teleological conception of justice to separate from the moral-deontological conceptions of justice and equality. Her topics include Ricoeur's response to the moralization of inequality, the sacrificial ethics of constitutive communitarianism, Rawl's anti-sacrificial ethics for capability justice, and a genealogy of enfranchisement in the modern welfare state. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-232) and index.

ISBN:

9781441198501

1441198504

9781441155245

1441155244

9781441177575

1441177574

OCLC:

657602825