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Author_Gerald F. Gaus
Baseline View
Basic Welfare Interest
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Betty's Actions
Betty’s Actions
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communitarian critique
Constrained Maximizers
Contemporary Society
Contractualist Moral Theory
Desert Claims
Desert Principle
distributive justice theory
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Goal Pursuers
Good Life
harm
Harm Principle
interests
justified
liberty rights analysis
Moral Contractors
normative ethics
Personal Ideals
pluralism
political obligation
principle
Prisoner's Dilemma
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Profound Offense
Public Goods Principle
Public Justification
public morality in pluralistic societies
publicly
rational choice theory
Rational Moral Persons
reasonable
Reasonable Pluralism
Teleological Morality
Truffula Trees
Violate
Weak Pareto Optimality
Weak Paternalism
welfare
Welfare Interests
Product details
- ISBN 9781563249495
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic concepts, including justifications of liberty, harm to others, private property rights, distributive justice, environmental harms, help to others and offensive behaviour. Gaus acquaints the reader with the major figures in social philosophy - John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, John Rawls, David Gauthier, and Joel Feinberg - as well as recent communitarian philosophers. The basic technical aspects of social philosophy are also introduced: game theory, social choice theory, the ideas rational action, rational bargaining, and public goods. Throughout, helpful short examples and stories are used to illustrate the material.
Gerald F. Gaus, University of Minnesota-Duluth
