Table of Contents

Part One: The Theory of Justice as Right Actions
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Theory and How it Operates
Part Two: Moral Dimensions
Chapter 2 Agency and Responsibility: Action-Guiding Principles
Chapter 3 Moral-Decision-Making and Relational Justice
Part Three: Political Liberalism
Chapter 4 Values and Liberalism
Chapter 5 Utility and the Harm Principle
Chapter 6 Liberty
Chapter 7 Equality
Part Four: The Reach of the Theory
Chapter 8 Global Justice
Chapter 9 Future Obligations of Justice
Part Five: Contemporary Disputes: The Power of Groups
Chapter 10 Group Rights
Chapter 11 Communities
Chapter 12 Multiculturalism and the Limits of Liberalism
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Author
Index

About the Author

Young Kim is adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law and a practicing lawyer.

Reviews

Young Kim provides a new theory of justice as right action, based on a grand synthesis of some of the most important contemporary moral and political philosophers. He insists that justice is first and foremost a moral concept but one that has political dimensions. This classical view runs counter to many contemporary attempts to separate the right from the good or to define justice as a political virtue and value. His conception of justice as right action shifts attention back to specifying the nature of morally right action within diverse moral contexts. In working through his argument students and scholars will confront some of the most important questions of moral and political philosophy. This an ambitious and thought provoking book.
*Paul Kelly, London School of Economics*