Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve From Our Country 1st Edition by Fred Feldman (PDF)

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This book presents and defends a novel theory of distributive justice, according to which political economic distributive justice reigns in a state if the government of that state ensures that citizens receive the benefits and burdens they deserve from it. The book starts with a more precise characterization of the target of this inquiry – political economic distributive justice. It then proceeds to explicate the concept of desert, evaluate proposed ways of justifying desert claims, formulate a number of desertist theories of justice, and draw out the special features of the version defended here. Once the proposed form of desertism has been stated, its implications are compared to those of egalitarianism, luck egalitarianism, sufficientism, the difference principle, libertarianism, and prioritarianism, with the aim of showing that desertism yields more attractive results in cases that prove difficult for other theories currently being discussed in the literature. Arguments -especially arguments deriving from Rawls — against desertism are explained and shown to be ineffective. There is discussion of the distinction between comparative and non-comparative justice. Emphasis is placed on the distinction between (a) theories about the moral rightness of distributions, (b) theories about the intrinsic value of distributions, and (c) theories specifically about the justice of distributions. There is discussion of the unfortunate results of confusion of these different sorts of theory. The views of Rawls, Nozick, Parfit, Frankfurt, Feinberg and others are discussed. A version of the method of reflective equilibrium is explained and defended. The book concludes with a series of admissions concerning puzzles that remain unsolved.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “… a model of how to do analytic political philosophy. It is magnificently clear and utterly rigorous. … the theory of justice that is advanced is subjected to the harshest of scrutiny. … one of the best sustained applications of the method of reflective equilibrium one can find. … a rare example of a piece of philosophy that both contributes to cutting edge debates and is highly accessible.” — Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics About the Author Fred Feldman, University of Massachusetts at AmherstFred Feldman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2013. His research primarily focuses on normative ethics, metaethics, the nature of happiness, and justice. He has long been fascinated by philosophical problems about the nature and value of death. He received a NEH research fellowship for the academic year of 2008/09; he received a Conti Faculty research fellowship for the academic year of 2013/14.

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⭐I found this book clear, interesting, original and thought-provoking. It makes a strong case that a desertist approach to justice — an approach according to which, roughly, a state treats people justly when it treats them how they deserve to be treated by a state — is well worth pursuing. The author circumscribes the target of his theory more clearly than previous writers on distributive justice. He offers a plausible theory that escapes the usual objections to a desertist approach. He offers simple and strong objections to other theories. He also shows how other theories can be cast as desertist theories. For me, one of the many ways in which the book was thought-provoking was that when I found aspects or consequences of the proposed theory that I didn’t like, there seemed to be room to either tweak the theory or adjust my views on related normative topics.

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