A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

Gottfried Schweiger, Gunter Graf

• Publisher: Springer Open
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137426017
• Year: 2015

This book examines child poverty as a topic of social justice. The authors develop a theory of social justice for children based within the capability approach, apply it to the injustice of child poverty and propose a theory of the responsibilities of different agents towards children living in poverty.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Series
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Philosophy and ChildPoverty
• 1 Social Justice for Children – ACapability Approach
• 2 The Injustice of Child Poverty
• 3 Responsibilities for Children inPoverty
• 4 Advancing Our Approach toGlobal Justice for Children
• References
• Index