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Justice for Here and Now James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

Justice for Here and Now By James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

Summary

James Sterba develops a conception of justice deriving from libertarianism and then applies it to a wide range of issues. This is a highly original and potentially controversial book that would be ideal for courses in applied ethics, political philosophy, environmental studies, women's studies, and peace studies.

Justice for Here and Now Summary

Justice for Here and Now by James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

This book conveys the breadth and interconnectedness of questions of justice - a rarity in contemporary moral and political philosophy. James P. Sterba argues that a minimal notion of rationality requires morality, and that a minimal libertarian morality requires the welfare and equal opportunity endorsee by welfare liberals and the equality endorsed by socialists, as well as a full feminist agenda. Feminist, racial, homosexual, and multicultural justice, are also shown to be mutually supporting. The author further shows the compatibility between anthropocentric and biocentric environmental ethics, as between just war and pacifist theories. Finally, he spells out when normal politics, legal protest, civil disobedience, revolutionary action, and criminal disobedience are morally permitted by justice for here and now. This highly original and potentially controversial book is ideal for courses in moral and political philosophy, applied ethics, women's studies, environmental studies, and peace studies.

Justice for Here and Now Reviews

' ... has something constructive to say on a wide range of issues: libertarianism, feminism, anthropocentrism, multiculturalism and pacifism, among others.' The Philosophical Quarterly

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: a peacemaking way of doing philosophy; 2. From rationality to morality; 3. From liberty to equality; 4. From equality to feminism; 5. From feminism to multiculturalism; 6. From anthropocentrism to nonanthropocentrism; 7. From just war theory to Pacifism; 8. Conclusion: Justice for here and now.

Additional information

NLS9780521627399
9780521627399
0521627397
Justice for Here and Now by James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1998-05-28
258
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