Part II: Political Philosophy

Multiple Choice Questions

Weblinks for What is justice?

Baehr, A. (2013). ‘Liberal Feminism’. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-liberal/. [An accessible introduction to this influential view of feminism and its critics.]

Cudd, A. (2012). ‘Contractarianism’. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism/. [An excellent overview of social contract theories in political philosophy.]

Human Development and Capability Association, https://hd-ca.org/. [An important resource for information and links about capability approaches.]

Song, S. (2010). ‘Multiculturalism’. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-liberal/. [A useful examination of multiculturalism, its issues and challenges.]

Wenar, L. (2012). ‘John Rawls’. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/. [The best introduction to Rawls’s justice as fairness available.]

Introductory further reading for What is justice?

Rawls, J. (2001). Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Harvard University Press. [This book is Rawls’s lectures about this theory of justice that brings together his earlier work and is more accessible.]

Sandel, M. (2009). Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Penguin. [An excellent, accessible introduction to the idea of justice covering the leading figures and ideas.]

Advanced further reading for What is justice?

Brooks, T. (2012). Punishment. Routledge. [A comprehensive examination of the philosophy of punishment and defence of a unified theory of punishment bringing together multiple penal purposes. But also argues for the idea of a stakeholder society and why this matters for political justice.]

Brooks, T. and Nussbaum, M. (eds) (2015). Rawls’s Political Liberalism. Columbia University Press. [A recent contribution by leading figures delivering a timely reassessment of Rawls’s theory of justice.]

Nussbaum, M. (2000). Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge University Press. [A highly influential account revising Sen’s work on capabilities.]

Okin, S. (1999). Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton University Press. [An excellent essay with a series of critical responses that reflects on possible conflict between feminism and multiculturalism – and what we should think about it.]

Parekh, B. (2006). Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory. 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillan. [The most significant contribution to our understanding of multiculturalism richly informed by a leading statesman.]

Plato. (1992). The Republic. Hackett. [Perhaps the best-known work in philosophy and a crucial early contribution to our understanding of justice.]

Rousseau, J.-J. (1997). The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings. Cambridge University Press. [The most important text in the history of philosophy defending the idea of a social contract.]

Sen, A. (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press. [A key statement by this Nobel Prize-winning economist about his novel capability approach and its relevance for justice within and beyond states.]