Justice and Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27169-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Apart from considering classical theories of justice from Aristotle, Plato, Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Bible, and the Quran, the aim of Justice and Law is to focus on the contemporary vista, reviewing some of the modern ideas of justice advanced by legal philosophers of our time, such as John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, Richard A. Posner, Wojciech Sadurski, Marxism, or Feminist Theories.
In the second part of the work, María José Falcón y Tella deals with some of the principal themes relating to justice, such as punishment, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, just war, conflict of duties, and tolerance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falcón y Tella, María José

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Excerpt of table of contents:

Prologue;
Chapter 1: Main Doctrinal Theories
1.- Introduction
2.- Justice in the Bible
3.- Plato’s The Republic
4.- Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
5.- Justice in Islamic Law
6.- Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica
7.- Confucius in China
8.- The Conquest of America
9.- Machiavelli: “the end justifies the means”
10.-Jürgen Habermas’ Theory of Diskursethik
11.- John Rawls’ Justice as Fairness
12.- Ronald Dworkin’s Taking Rights Seriously
13.- Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia
14.- Justice as “Efficiency”
15.- Justice and “Desert”
16.- Marx’s Justice as a “Critique”
17.- Alasdair MacIntyre
18.- “Feminist” Justice
Chapter 2: Main Contents
1.- Justice and Punishment
2.- Justice and Civil Disobedience
3.- Conflict of Duties
4.- May the Judge Conscientiously Object in the Case of an Unjust Law?
5.- Just War
6.- Justice, Tolerance, and Open Society
7.- Justice and Religion
8.- Justice and Equity
9.- Justice and Legal Security
10.- Justice and Equality
11.- Justice and Liberty
12.- Justice and Happiness
13.- Some Bioethical Questions
14.- Social Justice
15.- Global Justice
16.- Procedural Justice
17.- Justice and Social Contract
Bibliography, Index.

Über Autor(innen)

María José Falcón y Tella is Professor of Legal Philosophy (1991) of the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of 25 books, many of them translated into different languages, such as Civil Disobedience (2004), Punishment and Culture (2006), Equity and Law (2008), A Three-Dimensional Theory of Law (2010), and Jurisprudence in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law (2011), all of them published with Brill Nijhoff. She was awarded the National Prize of Studies in Law in 1987.