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Title: Equal Justice
Condition: New
Author: Eric Rakowski
Type: Hardback
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 019824875X
EAN: 9780198248750
ISBN: 9780198248750
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 05/09/1991
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 241mm
Item Length: 162mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 1g
Type: Philosophie
Language: English
Release Year: 1991
Description: The core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. In the light of this theory, Eric Rakowski considers three types of problem which urgently require solutions - the distribution of resources, property rights, and the saving of life - and provides challenging and unconventional answers. Further, he criticizes the economic analysis of law as a normative theory, and develops an alternative account of tort and property law.Among the topics discussed are the principles by which earnings, wealth, and gifts should be taxed; whether the compulsory removal of organs for transplantation can be justified; how doctors and public officials should make life-or-death decisions when all those endangered cannot be helped in equal measure; and the morality of killing human beings and non-human animals.

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