Concepts of Justice

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926546-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

In Concepts of Justice D. D. Raphael gives a philosophical survey of the development of the idea of justice. While the framework is historical, the aim is philosophical analysis and criticism.
Part I begins with 'Ancient Roots': justice in the Bible, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, in the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and among jurists and theologians in the Middle Ages.

Part II, 'Modern Shoots', deals with philosophers from Hobbes to Rawls, and others of the modern age. Some of the writings considered will be unfamiliar to many readers, who will find that eminence as a political theorist is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition of significant thought about justice.
Part III, 'Historical Fruits', draws some conclusions from the whole survey, pinning down the notion of fairness, and asking why this notion embraces apparently disparate ideas, notably 'merit' and 'need'. The developing role of justice and the emergence of novel features during the last three centuries is also discussed.

Raphael does not assume that the theories of philosophers must reflect the thought and usage of people generally: some do while others are idiosyncratic, and a number of philosophers neglect the usage of the concept in the context of law. While this book is not a comprehensive history, it is comprehensive in its scope.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raphael, D. D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: What is justice?

- Part I Ancient Roots

- 2: Justice in the Bible

- 3: Aeschylus' Oresteia: the development of justice

- 4: Plato's Republic

- 5: Aristotle

- 6: Jurists and theologians

- Part II Modern Shoots

- 8: G. W. Leibniz

- 9: David Hume

- 10: Hume's critics: Kames and Reid

- 11: Adam Smith

- 12: J. S. Mill

- 13: Henry Sidgwick

- 14: Hastings Rashdall

- 15: Peter Kropotkin

- 16: Chaim Perelman

- 17: David Miller

- 18: John Rawls

- 19: Robert Nozick

- 20: Brian Barry

- Part III Historical Fruits

- 21: Fairness

- 22: The developing role of justice

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

(Imperial College, University of London)