By Huei-chun Su
ISBN-10: 041569275X
ISBN-13: 9780415692755
This new booklet reopens the controversy on theories of justice among utilitarian theorists and students from different camps. John Rawls’ 1971 booklet of A thought of Justice recommend a devastating problem to the normal dominance of utilitarianism inside of political and ethical philosophy, and before no passable and finished utilitarian answer has but been recommend.
By expounding John Stuart Mill’s process of information and via reconstructing his utilitarianism, Huei-chun Su bargains a clean and accomplished research of Mill’s ethical philosophy and sheds new gentle at the reconciliation of Mill’s suggestion of justice with either his utilitarianism and his thought of liberty. greater than a research of Mill, this ebook makes use of a scientific framework to attract a comparability among Mill’s thought of justice and people of John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Friedrich von Hayek. It therefore establishes universal floor among various faculties of notion within the fields of economics and philosophy, and permits better dialogue.
This e-book could be necessary either to these drawn to Mill’s ethical philosophy and to these looking a high-quality theoretical foundation for interpreting the belief of justice, in addition to to an individual with an curiosity with the heritage of economics, financial philosophy and the background of financial suggestion extra generally.
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Economic Justice and Liberty: The Social Philosophy in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) by Huei-chun Su
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