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A Brief History of Justice - David Johnston

A Brief History of Justice

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Buch | Hardcover
278 Seiten
2011
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-5576-2 (ISBN)
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A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice.
A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice.

An accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justice
Shows how complex ideas are anchored in ordinary intuitions about justice
Traces the emergence of the idea of social justice
Identifies connections as well as differences between distributive and corrective justice
Offers accessible, concise introductions to the thought of several leading figures and schools of thought in the history of philosophy

David Johnston is Professor of Political Science and formerly Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. His books include The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation (1986), The Idea of a Liberal Theory (1994), Leviathan: A Norton Critical Edition (ed. with Richard Flathman, 1997), and Equality (ed., 2000).

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1

Prologue: From the Standard Model to a Sense of Justice 7

1 The Terrain of Justice 15

2 Teleology and Tutelage in Plato's Republic 38

3 Aristotle's Theory of Justice 63

4 From Nature to Artifice: Aristotle to Hobbes 89

5 The Emergence of Utility 116

6 Kant’s Theory of Justice 142

7 The Idea of Social Justice 167

8 The Theory of Justice as Fairness 196

Epilogue: From Social Justice to Global Justice? 223

Glossary of Names 233

Source Notes 239

Index 257

Reihe/Serie Brief Histories of Philosophy
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 224 mm
Gewicht 472 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-4051-5576-0 / 1405155760
ISBN-13 978-1-4051-5576-2 / 9781405155762
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