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What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with...
Author
Jonathan Wolff, Avner de-Shalit
Binding
Paperback
Pages
248
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199655588
EAN Code
9780199655588
ISBN #
7
The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously. Jonathan Wolff argues that if we detach Marx the critic...
Author
Jonathan Wolff
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0192805053
EAN Code
9780192805058
ISBN #
5
Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behavior and freedom of individuals. This raises important questions about how these institutions ought to function, and the extent to which actual systems of government succeed or fail in me...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
464
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0192892789
EAN Code
9780192892782
ISBN #
4
Why should some have the right to pass power?What would happen without government?How much power should the state have?An ideal introduction for students with no background in the subject, An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Third Edition, combines clarity and a conversational style with a thou...
Author
Jonathan Wolff
Binding
Paperback
Pages
250
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199658013
EAN Code
9780199658015
ISBN #
1
G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead o...
Author
Jonathan Wolff, G. A. Cohen
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
376
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691149003
EAN Code
9780691149004
ISBN #
9
Train crashes cause, on average, a handful of deaths each year in the UK. Technologies exist that would save the lives of some of those who die. Yet these technical innovations would cost hundreds of millions of pounds. Should we spend the money? How can we decide how to trade off life against finan...
Author
Jonathan Wolff
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN #
0415668530
EAN Code
9780415668538
ISBN #
8
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is one of the works which dominate contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal "night-watchman" state and challenges the vi...
Author
Jonathan Wolff
Binding
Paperback
Pages
184
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN #
0804718563
EAN Code
9780804718561
ISBN #
6
“A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”―Kirkus Reviews Few topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom...
Author
Jonathan Wolff
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN #
9780393343380
EAN Code
9780393343380
ISBN #
3
… before being appointed to the Chichele chair at Oxford in 1985. Several of his former students, such as Alan Carter, Will Kymlicka, John McMurtry, David Leopold, Michael Otsuka, Seana Shiffrin and Jonathan Wolff have gone on to be important moral and political philosophers in their own righ...
Author
Jonathan Wolff
ISBN #
0195224078
Author
Jonathan Wolff
ISBN #
0804718563
Author
Jonathan Wolff
ISBN #
0804718555