Self-Realization and Justice: A Liberal-Perfectionist Defense of the Right to Freedom from Employment

by Julia Maskivker

Book Overview

In this book, Maskivker argues that there ought to be a right not to participate in the paid economy in a new way; not by appealing to notions of fairness to competing conceptions of the good, but rather to a contentious (but defensible) normative ideal, namely, self-realization. In so doing, she joins a venerable tradition in ethical thought, initiated by Aristotle and developed in the work of important eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138308757
• ISBN13: 9781138308756
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"