Social Justice in Contemporary Housing : Applying Rawls’ Difference Principle (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 ? Housing Studies, Philosophy, and Policy

The epistemological foundations of housing studies

The relationship between philosophy and policy

Applied philosophy

Policy: Homelessness and Housing First

Chapter 2 ? The Role of the Reasonable in Public Justification

Introduction

The two moral powers

The use of reasonableness as a regulatory mechanism

A political conception of justice

The liberal principle of legitimacy

Applying reasonableness to social policy: The ‘Bedroom Tax’

Chapter 3 ? A Rawlsian Account of Justice

Justice as fairness

The difference principle

Applying the difference principle

Justifying the use of the difference principle

Reflective equilibrium

Extending the concept of reflective equilibrium

Chapter 4 ? Primary Goods: An appropriate metric?

Criticisms of primary goods

Alternative metrics

Revising primary goods

Chapter 5 ? Self-Command and Basic Justice

Self-respect as a primary good

Self-command and social freedom

The revised metric

Chapter 6 ? Applying philosophy to housing

The modified test

Application to policy

Conclusion

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