Social Justice

This reader brings together classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.

• A collection of classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.
  
• Includes classic discussions of justice by Locke and Hume.
  
• Provides broad coverage of contemporary discussions, including theoretical pieces by John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin.
  
• Contains papers that apply theories of justice to concrete issues, such as gender and the family, the market, world poverty, cultural rights, and future generations.
  
• Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students.

Matthew Clayton is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Warwick.

Andrew Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading, and has recently held visiting positions at Harvard and Yale. They are editors of The Ideal of Equality (2000).