Equality in Liberty and Justice

Equality in Liberty & Justice is an integrated collection of essays in political philosophy, divided into two parts. The first examines (classically) liberal ideas--the ideas of the Founding Fathers of the American republic--and some of the applications & the rejections of such ideas in our contemporary world. Among other questions about liberty & responsibility it considers, in the context of the imprisonment & psychiatric treatment of dissidents in the psychiatric hospitals of the former Soviet Union, Plato's suggestion that all delinquency is an expression of mental disease. The second part examines the relations & the lack of relations between old fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice & what is called by its promoters social justice. It therefore presses such questions as "Equal outcomes or equal justice?" & "Enemies of poverty or of inequality?"

Antony Flew is emeritus professor of philosophy in the University of Reading, England. He has also served as visiting professor in institutions in North America. Africa. and Australia. He has been published on many different philosophical questions, especially those of interest both to academic philosophers and to a wider public