What is Justice?

• INTRODUCTION ; PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOURCES ; Homer, from the Iliad ; "Justice, Equality, Desert," from the Bible ; Plato from the Republic ; Aristotle, from the Nicomachean Ethics ; "Justice, Retribution, and Mercy," from the Koran ; Aquinas, from Summa Theologica ; Mencius, from On the Mind ; PART TWO: JUSTICE AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT ; Hobbes, from Leviathan ; Locke, from Second Treatise on Government ; Rousseau, from A Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract ; Hegel, from Phenomenology of Spirit ; Rawls, from A Theory of Justice ; Nozick, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia ; Gauthier, from "The Social Contract as Ideology" ; Baier, from "Trust and Antitrust" ; PART THREE: JUSTICE AND SOCIETY ; The Declaration of Independence and Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America ; Locke, from Second Treatise on Government ; Hume, from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Justice and A Treatise of Human Nature ; Adam Smith, from A Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations ; Kant, from Philosophy of Law ; Hegel, from Philosophy of Right ; Mill, from Utilitarianism ; Engels, from Anti-Duhring, and Marx, from A Critique of the Gotha Programme ; von Hayek, from The Mirage of Social Justice ; Bernard Williams, from "The Idean of Equality ; David Miller, from Social Justice ; PART FOUR: JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT ; Pietro Marongiu and Graeme Newman, from Vengeance ; Nozick, from Philosphical Explanations ; Bentham, from Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ; Kant, from Philosophy of Law ; Hegel, from Philosophy of Right ; Nietzsche, from On the Genealogy of Morals ; Rawls, from "Two Concepts of Rules" ; Michael Moore, from "The Moral Worth of Retribution" ; Jean Hampton, from "The Moral Education Theory of Punishment" ; Robert Solomon, from A Passion for Justice ; United States Supreme Court, Gregg v. Georgia ; Hugo Bedau, from "Capital Punishment and Retributive Justice" ; Ernst van den Haag, from "Deterrence and the Death Penalty" ; Camus, from "Reflections on the Guillotine" ; PART FIVE: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE ON DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE ; Rawls, from A Theory of Justice ; Dworkin, from "The Original Position" ; Thomas Nagel, from "Rawls on Justice" ; Nozick, from Anarchy, State and Utopia ; MacIntyre, from After Virtue ; Michael Sandel, from Liberalism and the Limits of Justice ; Michael Walzer, from Spheres of Justice ; Susan Moller Okin, from Justice, Gender and the Family ; Rawls, from "Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical" ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

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