TY - GEN AU - Schmidtz, David. TI - Elements of justice SN - 0521831644 (hbk.) U1 - 172.2 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Justice (Philosophy) N1 - distributer: Al-Ahram; Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index; The neighboorhood of justice -- The basic concept -- A variety of contestants -- Contextual functionalism -- What is theory -- Desert -- What did I do to deserve this? -- Deserving a chance -- Deserving and earning -- Grounding desert -- Desert as an institutional artifact -- The limits of desert -- Reciprocity -- What is reciprocity? -- Varieties of reciprocity -- Debts to society and the problem of double counting -- The limits of reciprocity -- Equality -- Does equal trreatment imply equal shares -- What is equality for? -- Equal pay for equal work -- Equality and opportunity -- On the utility of equal shares -- The limits of equality -- Need -- Hierarchies of need -- Need as a distributive principle -- Beyond the numbers -- What do we need? -- Intellectual debts -- Rawls -- Nozick -- Rectification -- Two kinds of arbitrary -- Procedural versus distributive justice; catalogued by: wessam UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011489.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005011489-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2005011489-b.html ER -