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Freedom's Right - The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (Hardcover)
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Freedom's Right - The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (Hardcover)
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The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of
contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have
only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By
focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become
detached from the sphere that constitutes their field of
application - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a
different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive
criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that
have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These
criteria and these claims together make up what he terms democratic
ethical life : a system of morally legitimate norms that are not
only legally anchored, but also institutionally established.
Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that
all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single
feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of
individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel s Philosophy of Right
and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how
principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the
standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal
relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political
public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious
aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.
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