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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495889103321

Autore

Frohlich Norman

Titolo

Choosing Justice : An Experimental Approach to Ethical Theory / / Norman Frohlich and Joe A. Oppenheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1992]

©1992

ISBN

0-520-91449-X

0-585-04125-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.) : 9 figs., 29 tables

Collana

California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy Series ; ; Volume 22

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Distributive justice

Income distribution

Social choice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Understanding Distributive Justice -- CHAPTER ONE. Empirical Considerations Concerning Impartial Reasoning -- CHAPTER TWO. Research Problems -- CHAPTER THREE. Research Design -- CHAPTER FOUR. Basic Results Impartial Choices -- CHAPTER FIVE. Explaining Group Choices of Principles -- CHAPTER SIX. Group Choices of a Floor Constraint -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Role of Experimental Factors in Individual Choices -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Stability of Preferences and Satisfaction in a Working Environment -- CHAPTER NINE. Redistribution and Productivity -- CHAPTER TEN. Implications for Ethical Inquiry and Social Policy -- APPENDIX A. Subject Handbook -- APPENDIX B. Choices of Principles by Experimental Type -- APPENDIX C. Analyzing the Role of Background and Attitudinal Variables -- APPENDIX D. Analyzing the Effect of Location on the Level of Floor Constraint -- APPENDIX E. Analyzing Changes in Support for Principles by Rankings -- APPENDIX F. Production Documents -- APPENDIX G. Setting the Imposed Principle -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an entirely new answer to the question: "What is



fair?" In their radical approach to ethics, Frohlich and Oppenheimer argue that much of the empirical methodology of the natural sciences should be applied to the ethical questions of fairness and justice.