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Though much attention has been paid to different principles of justice, far less has been done reflecting on what the larger concern behind the notion is. In this work, Mathias Risse proposes that the perennial quest for justice is about ensuring that each individual has an appropriate place in what our uniquely human capacities permit us to build, produce, and maintain, and is appropriately respected for the capacity to hold such a place to begin with. Risse begins by investigating the role of political philosophers and exploring how to think about the global context where philosophical inquiry occurs. Next, he offers a quasi-historical narrative about how the notion of distributive justice identifies a genuinely human concern that arises independently of cultural context and has developed into the one we should adopt now. Finally, he investigates the core terms of this view, including stringency, moral value, ground and duties of justice.

This book provides readers with an updated discussion of important and practical social justice issues, presenting issues from a new perspective, based on the author´s research. Coverage includes such concepts as morality, fairness, and self-deception

A distinguished group of political philosophers takes Miller's theory as a starting point and debates whether justice takes one form or many. Drawing real world implications from theories of justice and examining in depth social justice, national justice, and global justice, this book falls on the cutting edge of the latest developments in political theory

This book presents surveys of significant trends in contemporary philosophy. Contributing authors explore themes relating to justice including natural rights, equality, freedom, democracy, morality and cultural traditions. Key movements and thinkers are considered, ranging from ancient Greek philosophy, Roman and Christian traditions to the development of Muslim law, Enlightenment perspectives and beyond. Authors discuss important works, including those of Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Mary Wollstonecraft. Readers are also invited to examine Hegel and the foundation of right, Karl Marx as a utopian socialist and the works of Paul Ricœur, amongst the wealth of perspectives presented in this book. Through these chapters, readers are able to explore the relationship of the state to justice and consider the rights of the individual and the role of law. Contributions presented here discuss concepts including Sharia law, freedom in the community and Libertarian Anarchism. Readers may follow accounts of justice in the Scottish Enlightenment and consider fairness, social justice and the concept of injustice. The surveys presented here show different approaches and a variety of interpretations. Each contribution has its own bibliography

Justice is a virtue that speaks to our time and has been sought and celebrated since it was conceptualized in ancient Greece. Foregrounding new and fascinating research in philosophy and psychology, as well as other empirical fields of study, the essays in this volume explore the breadth and significance of current understandings of justice, with an emphasis on justice as a virtue that individuals can cultivate in themselves and others.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 What is Justice? The Concept -- The roots of justice -- Justice and ideology -- Justice and distribution -- Justice and desert -- 2 What is Just? The Norms -- Equality and desert -- The value of formal justice -- Knowledge of justice -- The communitarian critique of liberal justice -- 3 Justice as Entitlement: Libertarian Approaches -- Rights and formal justice -- Justice as human rights -- Ownership and entitlement -- Nozick's justice -- Conjectural history and the minimal state -- Libertarian alternatives -- 4 Justice as Respect: Liberal Approaches -- Kantian justice -- Dworkin's rights -- Justice and minorities -- Critique of Dworkin -- 5 Justice as Fairness: Contractual Approaches -- Justice as fairness -- Rawlsian justice -- Critique of Rawls -- The original position -- Principles of justice -- Respecting desert -- Some Rawlsian dogmas -- Global justice -- 6 Justice as Utility: Consequentialist Approaches -- Justice and utility -- The 'economics' of justice -- Criminal law -- 7 Justice as Desert: Responsibilities and Remuneration -- The attractions of desert -- Problems of desert -- Just remuneration -- Luck egalitarianism -- 8 Justice as Critique: Socialist Approaches -- Formal justice and the critique of rights -- Material justice, exploitation and desert -- Socialist justice -- 9 Justice as Empowerment: Feminist Approaches -- A feminist reconstruction of justice -- Oppression and domination -- Critical reflections -- 10 Justice as Democracy: Political Approaches -- The theory of social interaction -- The presuppositions of communicative action -- Habermasian justice -- Critical comments -- 11 Global Justice: Cosmopolitan Approaches -- A justice approach -- A humanitarian approach -- Justice and humanity -- The International criminal courts and humanitarian intervention.

Introduction -- Environmental Ethics in African Philosophy -- Environmental (in)Justice in Africa: The North - South division -- Environmental Justice from an African Land Ethic -- African Relational Environmental Justice -- African Ecofeminist Environmental Justice -- African Intergenerational Environmental Justice