Brief History of Justice

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5576-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Brief Histories of Philosophy

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston

Johnston, David

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: From the Standard Model to a Sense of Justice

1. The Terrain of Justice

2. Teleology and Tutelage in Plato's Republic

3. Aristotle's Theory of Justice

4. From Nature to Artifice: Aristotle to Hobbes

5. The Emergence of Utility

6. Kant's Theory of Justice

7. The Idea of Social Justice

8. The Theory of Justice as Fairness

Epilogue: From Social Justice to Global Justice?

Glossary of Names

Source Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).