Human dignity and social justice / Pablo Gilabert.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Gilabert, Pablo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Dignity.
• Human rights.
• Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is it and why is it important? Pablo Gilabert offers a systematic defense of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of justice.

Contents:

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
• 1. The Dignitarian Approach
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Dignitarian Approach
• 2.1 An account of dignity
• 2.2 Fruitfulness of the Dignitarian Approach
• 3. From Basic to Maximal Justice. The Case of Justice at Work
• 3.1 Labour rights
• 3.2 Basic labour rights
• 3.3 Towards maximal labour rights
• 4. The Dignitarian Approach And Social Critique
• 2. Kantian Dignity and Marxian Socialism
• 2. Kantian Dignity
• 2.1 Resources in Kant
• 2.2 Difficulties and revisions
• 3. Marxian Socialism
• 3.1 Capitalism and socialism
• 3.2 The critique of capitalism
• 3.3 The socialist project
• 3. The Abilities/Needs Principle
• 2. The Marxian Platform
• 3. Exploring The Abilities/Needs Principle
• 3.1 Initial appeal
• 3.2 Is the principle trivial, redundant, or manifestly inferior to others?
• 3.3 Need to develop an interpretation of the principle
• 4. Developing The Abilities/Needs Principle
• 4.1 ANP is not the only principle socialists should accept
• 4.2 ANP and dignity
• 4.3 Needs
• 4.4 The demands of ANP
• 4.5 Implementing ANP
• 5. Transition
• 6. Ideological Manipulation and The Duty to Contribute
• 4. Justice and Feasibility
• 2. The Nature, Importance, and Role of Feasibiity
• 2.1 What?
• 2.2 Why?
• 2.3 How?
• 3. The Pursuit of Justice: A Dynamic Approach
• 3.1 Three dimensions of a conception of justice and deliberative reflective equilibrium
• 3.2 Transitional standpoint, political imagination, and dynamic duties
• 4. Feasibility and Dignity
• II. RETHINKING THE SOCIALIST CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM
• 5. The Critique of Exploitation
• 2. Exploitation as Contra-Solidaristic use of Power.
• 3. Dignity, Solidarity, and the Abilities/Needs Principle
• 3.1 Dignity and solidaristic empowerment
• 3.2 The Abilities/Needs Principle and exploitation
• 4. Exploitation as a Multidimensional Social Process
• 4.1 Contrast with other accounts
• 4.2 A multidimensional process
• 5. Agency and Structure
• 6. The Critique of Alienation
• 2. Alienation: An Analytical Framework
• 2.1 Basic definition
• 2.2 Subjective and objective alienation
• 2.3 Descriptive and normative accounts of alienation
• 2.4 Prudential and moral variants of normative accounts
• 2.5 Dynamic patterns
• 3. Human Flourishing and Freedom
• 3.1 The normative dimension of alienation
• 3.2 Human flourishing and the prudential critique of alienation
• 3.3 Freedom and the moral critique of alienation
• 4. Dignity
• 4.1 The Dignitarian Approach
• 4.2 Problematic essentialism?
• 4.3 Gap between the good and the right?
• 4.4 Paternalistic imposition?
• 4.5 The two-level justification objection
• 4.6 Further issues
• 4.7 Dynamic patterns and the critique of alienated self-determination and self-realization
• 5. On Recent Developments in Capitalist Conditions of Work
• 7. The Critique of Domination
• 2. The Case of the Domination of Workers in Capitalism
• 3. Domination: An Analytical Framework
• 3.1 Definition of domination
• 3.2 Structural domination
• 3.3 Change
• 3.4 Agential power, self-determination, and non-domination
• 4. The Dignitarian Approach and Domination
• 4.1 Domination as a limited but important normative factor
• 4.2 The Dignitarian Approach
• 4.3 Human dignity and the justification of the critique of domination
• 4.4 The advantages of the Dignitarian Approach to domination
• 5. Appendix I: Analytical Grid of Power
• 6. Appendix II: Domination, Alienation, and Exploitation.
• 8. Comparing Socialism and Capitalism
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Gilabert, Pablo Human Dignity and Social Justice

ISBN:

• 0-19-196748-3
• 0-19-269891-5
• 0-19-269892-3