Justice And Justification

Author : Norman Daniels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052146711X

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Justice and Justification by Norman Daniels Pdf

We all have beliefs, even strong convictions, about what is just and fair in our social arrangements. How should these beliefs and the theories of justice that incorporate them guide our thinking about practical matters of justice? This wide-ranging collection of essays by one of the foremost medical ethicists in the United States explores the claim that justification in ethics, whether concerning matters of theory or practice, involves achieving coherence or "reflective equilibrium" (as Rawls has called it) between our moral and nonmoral beliefs. Among the practical issues the volume addresses are the design of health-care institutions, the distribution of goods between the old and the young, and fairness in hiring and firing practices. In combining ethical theory and practical ethics this volume will prove especially valuable to philosophers concerned with ethics and applied ethics, political theorists, bioethicists, and others involved in the study of public policy.

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594486074

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Generous Justice by Timothy Keller Pdf

Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace.

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780231147088

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The Right to Justification by Rainer Forst Pdf

Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the Frankfurt School's newest generation of philosophers, conceives of an "autonomous" construction of justice founded on what he calls the basic moral right to justification. Forst begins by identifying this right from the perspective of moral philosophy. Then, through an innovative, detailed critical analysis, he ties together the central components of social and political justice--freedom, democracy, equality, and toleration--and joins them to the right to justification. The resulting theory treats "justificatory power" as the central question of justice, and by adopting this approach, Forst argues, we can discursively work out, or "construct," principles of justice, especially with respect to transnational justice and human rights issues. As he builds his theory, Forst engages with the work of Anglo-American philosophers such as John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Amartya Sen, and critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth. Straddling multiple subjects, from politics and law to social protest and philosophical conceptions of practical reason, Forst brilliantly gathers contesting claims around a single, elastic theory of justice.

Author : Fabian Wendt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319288772

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Compromise, Peace and Public Justification by Fabian Wendt Pdf

This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.

Author : James D. G. Dunn,Alan M. Suggate
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802807976

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The Justice of God by James D. G. Dunn,Alan M. Suggate Pdf

The biblical theme of justification by faith is all too often regarded as a consumer commodity, as a private transaction between God and the individual. The result is that the social dimension is left, often with disastrous consequences, to market forces. Certain that justification is inseparable from justice, the authors of this book have teamed up to deliver an emphatic restatement of the relational nature of justification and its interaction with communal and social justice. In Part One James D. G. Dunn critiques Luther's "discovery" of the doctrine of justification by faith, showing how he overlooked the social dimension that is part and parcel of Paul's message. A careful look at Old Testament themes recovers an understanding of justification and justice that has national and social as well as individual outworkings. In Part Two Alan M. Suggate offers Nazi Germany, militarist Japan, and 1980s Britain as three modern case studies that demonstrate (at times appallingly so) the distorted nature of justice that can result from an inadequate understanding of justification. This analysis clearly shows how a fresh restatement of the interaction of justification and justice could have fruitful consequences for worldwide social justice.

Author : Viggo Mortensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Justice
ISBN : 3906706109

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Justification and Justice by Viggo Mortensen Pdf

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Polity
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745652283

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Justification and Critique by Rainer Forst Pdf

Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and political practices and at the same time transcends them. Forst regards society as a whole as an ‘order of justification’ comprising complexes of different norms referring to institutions and corresponding practices of justification. The task of a ‘critique of relations of justification’, therefore, is to analyse such legitimations with regard to their validity and genesis and to explore the social and political asymmetries leading to inequalities in the ‘justification power’ which enables persons or groups to contest given justifications and to create new ones. Starting from the concept of justification as a basic social practice, Forst develops a theory of political and social justice, human rights and democracy, as well as of power and of critique itself. In so doing, he engages in a critique of a number of contemporary approaches in political philosophy and critical theory. Finally, he also addresses the question of the utopian horizon of social criticism.

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780932866

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Justice, Democracy and the Right to Justification by Rainer Forst Pdf

Over the past 15 years, Rainer Forst has developed a fundamental research programme within the tradition of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. The core of this programme is a moral account of the basic right of justification that humans owe to one another as rational beings. This account is put to work by Forst in articulating - both historically and philosophically - the contexts and form of justice and of toleration. The result is a powerful theoretical framework within which to address issues such as transnational justice and multicultural toleration. In this volume, Forst sets out his ideas in an extended essay, which is responded to be influential interlocutors including: Andrea Sangiovanni, Amy Allen, Kevin Olson, Anthony Laden, Eva Erman and Simon Caney. The volume concludes with Forst's response to his interlocutors.

Author : Eric Cave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000308006

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Preferring Justice by Eric Cave Pdf

This manuscript is about the sense of justice that limits what individuals can do in pursuit of their ends and opens them to exploitation. It shows how flawed agents choosing under partial information advance those of their ends having nothing to do with justice by maintaining such a disposition.

Author : Clarence Morris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781512804638

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The Justification of the Law by Clarence Morris Pdf

"Men enjoy justice steadily and by design only when they live in a society that affords opportunities to all . . . to form aspirations for their society."—From the Introduction "The crux about which this book revolves is theory of justice," writes Clarence Morris. In its simplest form, his theory is this: the more the law implements the public's genuine and important aspirations—not its desires for individual gratification but the social, deep-seated unselfish, nonexploitable aspirations—the more just the legal system becomes. "Man's capacity for justice does not flow from divine reason or divine revelation. Men enjoy justice steadily and by design only when they live in a society that affords opportunities in all its inhabitants to develop their capacity to form aspirations for their society." Up to now the world's capacity for justice, so defined, has been small. Some believe that the Western world is still too suppressed for such aspirations and that true justice will emerge only after its liberation. Herbert Marcuse calls for liberation through revolution; John Stuart Mill, relying on man's reason, urged peaceful nonconformity. Both, says Morris, are wrong—but we should learn from Marcuse that every aspiration has an emotional dimension, and we should not allow Mill to persuade us that justice is only a matter of factual discovery. And, since justices are always in flux, the justice of one time or place can become the clumsy legalistics of another. In the light of this theory of justice the author examines the complex logic with which the law must tread its way through the maze of human existence; the need for general rules ("enacted law" and judicial precedents); the function of sociological insights in the development of common law; and the role of statutory penal law, strikingly illustrated from the Chinese Imperial Code.

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Constructivism (Philosophy)
ISBN : 6613789895

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The Right to Justification by Rainer Forst Pdf

Author : Brendan Case
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567697677

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The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgment by Brendan Case Pdf

The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgement offers a theological meditation on the human being as an accountable animal. Brendan Case introduces the idea of accountability, not merely as a structural feature of human institutions, but as a disposition to submit to rightly-constituted authority, whether divine or human. He relates this conception of accountability to the key themes of "justice, justification, and judgment".

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780932859

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Justice, Democracy and the Right to Justification by Rainer Forst Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Over the past 15 years, Rainer Forst has developed a fundamental research programme within the tradition of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. The core of this programme is a moral account of the basic right of justification that humans owe to one another as rational beings. This account is put to work by Forst in articulating - both historically and philosophically - the contexts and form of justice and of toleration. The result is a powerful theoretical framework within which to address issues such as transnational justice and multicultural toleration. In this volume, Forst sets out his ideas in an extended essay, which is responded to be influential interlocutors including: Andrea Sangiovanni, Amy Allen, Kevin Olson, Anthony Laden, Eva Erman and Simon Caney. The volume concludes with Forst's response to his interlocutors.

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520232259

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Contexts of Justice by Rainer Forst Pdf

This text offers an intervention into the debate between communitarianism and liberalism. It argues for a theory of "contexts of justice" that leads beyond the confines of the debate as it has been understood and posits the possibility of a new conception of social and political justice.

Author : James W. Geiger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620320679

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Christianity and the Outsider by James W. Geiger Pdf

What does Christianity have to say about the salvation of the African tribesman who died before the missionaries arrived, and the great sorrow of the Messianic Jew who grieves for family and friends who did not or will not acknowledge his Jesus as their Messiah? C. S. Lewis said these outsiders represent the scandal of exclusivity. Jim Geiger is a Christian insider and fully committed to the exclusivity of Christ's atonement. However, he is suggesting an expanded Christology where: ¥ The constant speed of light in E = mc2 corroborates the constant Christ of Heb 13:8. ¥ Special and general relativity model special and general revelation. ¥ The Christ of general revelation represents the hope of salvation for some of Christianity's outsiders.