A Treatise on Social Justice, Volume 1: Theories of Justice

By Brian M. Barry

Book Overview

What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy, Theories of Justice stands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls's A Theory of Justice .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520076494
• ISBN13: 9780520076495
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"