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