Social Justice Reconsidered: The Problem of Appropriate Precision in a Theory of Justice

by David Mapel

Social Justice Reconsidered is an attempt to refocus debate about justice. David Mapel argues that some of the more ambitious theories of justice have failed to establish themselves because they seek too high a degree of precision, because they have tried to provide criteria for ranking all possible (or feasible) social systems according the the justice of their distributions.

177 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1989