Is Social Justice Just?

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781598133530 Author(s): Christopher J. Coyne Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2023 Publisher: Independent Institute,U.S. Pages: 376

Description: âAnyone concerned with social justice will find this book makes him question his assumptions, rethink his premises, and think!' âAndrew P. Morriss, professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, School of Law, Texas A&M UniversityWhat is social justice? In these pages, twenty-one accomplished academics seek to do justice to âsocial justice.â Inequality exists and it obviously causes rifts in societies. But itâs not obvious how the government should address those rifts, or if it should address them at all. Have we forgotten the perhaps more efficient power of personal choiceâand the corollary obligation: to serve our neighborsâto make our society more humane? Beginning with the first political philosophers in ancient Athens, and continuing right through Marx into our post-modern era, men have wrestled with the question of justice; and the answers have been as earnest as they have been varied. Today, our âexpertâ class also claim to have answersâupdated answers, more âequitableâ answers, more technological answers ... in short, answers that are simply better suited to our times.But are those answers in any way correct? Do they work? Are theyâjust? In these elegant, nuanced essays, the authors use the wisdom of ancient and modern philosophers to shed light on these important questionsâand the answers are revealing. Armed with ample evidence from real-world experiences, lessons from history, the wisdom of the classics, modern philosophers, and even the teachings of the world religions, the contributors of Is Social Justice Just? Illuminate the central role of the individual in achieving justice in all its aspects. Read Is Social Justice Just? And discover: how to do social justice wrong with the poison of resentment, envy, and ignorance;how to do social justice right with