Publication

2004-06-15 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

51,000 words, Guess

Page Count

204 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004040517
  • LibraryThing186984

Classifications

  • LCCHB523 .F58 2004

Description

"Samuel Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to the poor is a modern idea, developed only in the last two centuries. Earlier notions of justice, including Aristotle's, were concerned with the distribution of political office, not of property. It was only in the eighteenth century, in the work of philosophers such as Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, that justice began to be applied to the problem of poverty." "By examining major writings in ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy, Fleischacker shows how we arrived at the contemporary meaning of distributive justice."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • A Short History of Distributive JusticeHardcoverHarvard University Press2004-06-15

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