What is social justice? In Theories of Justice Brian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy, Theories of Justice stands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls's A Theory of Justice.
- ISBN10 0520038665
- ISBN13 9780520038660
- Publish Date 28 March 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 1998
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 443
- Language English