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245		0	_aSocial Justice _b: Distributive Principles and Beyond
260			_aJaipur _bRawat Publications _c2017
300			_aviii, 336p
520			_aJustice is one of the primary qualities of good political order. With rising disparities of income, wealth, and access to opportunity in many liberal societies, justice is now a concern for everyone. Each member of society wants and expects one's a fair share of wealth, income, political power, social recognition, education, and other resources and opportunities. The question this book broaches is the specific standard that should be employed in assessing what one deserves. To utilitarian theorists, a socially just allocation is ultimately an allocation that produces the greatest sum of happiness. The most ambitious attempt to answer these questions was provided by John Rawls. Rawls's view is that justice demands 'maximum equal liberty,' and distribution of economic benefits which makes the least favoured person as well off as possible. But Hayek and Nozick challenge John Rawls's arguments, saying that distributive principles are incompatible with individual liberty. In the traditional distributional approach, the sole emphasis on distribution without an examination of the underlying causes of the mal-distributions was not acceptable to several contemporary political theorists such as Iris Young, Nancy Frazer, Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor. Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum who have expanded the concept of justice beyond Rawls (distributive justice) by an advancing capability approach. Today, even environmental and ecological justice have become very important themes of discussion for social and political theorists. The idea of social justice implies more than just granting political and legal equality by the state. This book pursues this line of inquiry by providing students, scholars, and policymakers with an extensive review of research on social justice in India.
650			_aSocial _vJustice _zIndia
700			_aDube, M.P.
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