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Justice, institutions, and luck : the site, ground, and scope of equality / Kok-Chor Tan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tan, Kok-Chor, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Equality before the law.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 208 pages)
- Other Title:
- Justice, institutions, & luck
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kok-Chor Tan addresses three key questions in political philosophy: Where does distributive equality matter? Why does it matter? And among whom does it matter? He argues for an institutional site for egalitarian justice, a luck-egalitarian ideal of why equality matters, and a global scope for distributive justice.
- Contents:
- Institutions and justice
- Evading the demands of justice?
- Luck egalitarianism : a modest account
- Defending luck egalitarianism
- Global institutions and justice
- The arbitrariness of nationality
- Clarifications and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-870154-3
- 1-280-69879-9
- 9786613675750
- 0-19-162929-4
- OCLC:
- 922971107
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