TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 10 Chapter 1: Creating new conception of “work ethic” and motivation for a changing 25 economy, particularly on reformulating “self-appraisal” issue
Chapter 2: Implementation of “work ethic”, Rawls’ “rational plan”, 57 Gandhi’s “rational plan” and Universal Basic Income (UBI) Chapter 3: Reformulating desert/merit/legitimate expectations with my “work ethic” 98 for equality/distributive justice
Chapter 4: Reformulating incentives and Nozick’s arguments 127 with my equality/distributive justice
Chapter 5: Reformulating “expensive tastes”, global or national “work ethic” 160 by reformulating “effective altruism” and global justice
Chapter 6: Reformulating “expensive tastes”, “luck egalitarianism” and 182 “responsibility”, particularly with Dworkin, Cohen, Anderson’s research,
for equality/distributive justice and anticipated responses in earlier chapters Chapter 7: Gandhi’s ethic/humility, utility and
Detailed table of contents
Introduction 10
I. First chapter Creating new conception of “work ethic” and motivation for a changing economy, 25
particularly on “self-appraisal” issue 1. Economical data on how my “work ethic” Self esteem (SE) or 26
self respect (SR) or self recognition (S rec) or Self Appraisal (SA) is relevant, particularly in the changes in the twenty-first century 2. Resolving the contradictions in Rawls’ thesis with “work ethic” to create more substantive distributive justice 28
3. More details on Gandhi's “work ethic” and self respect 36
4. Justification for “work ethic” and motivation/feasibility 45
a. Ideal conception 45
b. Intuitive ethics 46
c. “Overlapping consensus” or “Kantian contractarianism” from Rawls and 48
Stuart White’s exploitation thesis, Van Parijs’ incidental question on “what is work?” for “work ethic” 6. Other scholars that have dealt with SE/SA/SR/SRec. v. Gandhi's work ethic 54
II. Second chapter Implementation of “ work ethic ”, Rawls’ “rational plan”, 57
Gandhi’s “rational plan” and Universal Basic Income (UBI) 1. Introduction 57
2. “Unconditional Basic Income” (UBI), its variants and contradictions: 59
“work ethic” can be a solution 3. Reformulating Rawls’ “rational plan” with Gandhi’s humility 72
and "work ethic" for implementation 4. Implementation of work ethic/rational plans 83
5. Conclusion 97 III. Third Chapter
Reformulating desert/merit/legitimate expectations with my “work ethic” 98 1. Introduction 98 2. Analysing the existing debates and literature of distributive justice in desert/ 100 legitimate expectations/merit/rewards
a. Scanlon’s arguments 103 a1.Institutional desert 103 a2.Non-Institutional desert 105
b. integral luck” and “circumstantial luck” argument
in desert in distributive justice and the issue of burden and desert 108 c. Sher’s argument on “effort and control, burden of work, 112
and the argument of ‘enjoying your job’”
d. Desert, effort, natural/neurological abilities, Rawls’
thesis and empirical data 116 e. Practical implementation with my conception and
possible complications 118 f. infeasibility in effort and contribution, holistic and
individual desert 119 g. the unintended cause of my thesis and desert or fear of 121 discrimination, nepotism and favouritism
h. demand and supply with economist factors 122 i. The aspect of education and Olsaretti’s similar proposal 123
j. The difficulty in the definition of desert itself 124 3. Conclusion 126 IV. Fourth chapter 127 Reformulating incentives and Nozick’s arguments with my “work ethic”
for equality/distributive justice
2.a.Cohen’s burden exception,
“positional goods” and my argument 130
2.b.Frye’s argument 136
2.c.Individual or institutional desert 136
2.d. Social psychology or philosophy 139
2.e.Van Parijs’ criticism 140
2.f Change of career and incentives 141
2g Onerous requirements while institutional prescriptions are clear 143
2h Cognisant of “genuine value” of product 143
3. Nozick’s argument 145
4. Conclusion 158
V. Fifth chapter 160
Reformulating “expensive tastes”, global or national “work ethic” by reformulating “effective altruism” and global justice 1.Introduction 160
2. Introduction of Singer’s ethics and its relevance 163
3. Meta ethics and modifying Singer’s ethics while agreeing with the premise of 164
donating substantial part of personal income to underdeveloped countries. Some of Singer’s secondary empirical data can bolster Rawls’, Cohen’s and my thesis’ research. 4. Defending Singer’s thesis with my work ethic 171
5 Conclusion 181
VI. Sixth Chapter 182
Reformulating “expensive tastes”, “luck egalitarianism” and “responsibility”, particularly with Dworkin, Cohen, Anderson’s research, for equality/distributive justice and anticipated responses in earlier chapters 1. Introduction 182
2. Dworkin and Cohen's arguments on “expensive tastes” and the Problematic notion of “responsibility” and luck egalitarianism in distributive justice 183
3. My conception has some similarities with Stoic philosophy but some aspects 197
to my ultimate goal, especially on the aspect of self esteem/respect by using Doppelt’s thesis
5.I analysed limited perfectionism in this thesis though perfectionism can be 202 with aspirational or edificatory perfectionism, which one of them fits with my
conception and the thesis.
Conclusion 208 VII. Seventh Chapter 209 Gandhi’s ethic/humility, utility and warnings
Introduction 211 Defining Gandhi’s humility/work ethic 219 Warnings with Ralph Ellison’s analysis 243 Implementation
