Bibliograph

On justice, philosophy, history, foundations, Mathias Risse, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Type

Label

On justice, philosophy, history, foundations, Mathias Risse, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-416) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On justice

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1137835025

Responsibility statement

Mathias Risse, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Sub title

philosophy, history, foundations

Summary

"The proposal I make in this book is that the perennial quest for justice is about making sure each individual has an appropriate place in what our uniquely human capacities permit us to build, produce, and maintain, and that each individual is respected appropriately for their capacities to hold such a place to begin with. Following a distinction that goes back to Aristotle, under this umbrella we later distinguish commutative from distributive justice. The former maintains and restores an earlier status quo that set the stage for the interaction or otherwise responds to violations. The latter is concerned with sharing out whatever a community holds in common. Contrary to many contemporary philosophical voices, I think distributive justice, appropriately understood, should be at the center of global political thought. This book explores how to think about global distributive justice"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Apologia for justice -- Part I : Political philosophy. Political philosophy as a vocation : seven approaches -- Political philosophy as a vocation : seven approaches, continued -- Global thought : political philosophy in the world society -- Global thought : world society, cultural imperialism, white ignorance -- Half a century after Malcolm X came to visit : reflections on the thin presence of African thought in global justice debates -- Part II : Distributive justice. Distributive justice and the great tale of humanity -- Origins -- Antiquity and beyond -- Approaching the present -- Global justice -- Pluralist internationalism -- Part III : The grounds of justice : philosophical foundations. Engaging Immanuel Kant and Ernst Tugendhat -- Value, stringency, and the frame-of-human-life conception of the political -- The ontology of grounds of justice : elaboration and comparisons -- Grounds of justice and public reason, domestic and global -- Duties of justice -- Epilogue on justice, politics, and the meaning of life : confronting Carl Schmitt

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