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The Faces of Injustice (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Faces of Injustice (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Storrs Lectures
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How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can
we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice
they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist
ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political
and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate
acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to such acts.
Judith N. Shklar draws on the writings of Plato, Augustine, and
Montaigne, three skeptics who gave the theory of injustice its main
structure and intellectual force, as well as on political theory,
history, social psychology, and literature from sources as diverse
as Rosseau, Dickens, Hardy, and E. L. Doctorow. Shklar argues that
we cannot set rigid rules to distinguish instances of misfortune
from injustice, as most theories of justice would have us do, for
such definitions would not take into account historical variability
and differences in perception and interest between the victims and
spectators. From the victim's point of view-whether it be one who
suffered in an earthquake or as a result of social
discrimination-the full definition of injustice must include not
only the immediate cause of disaster but also our refusal to
prevent and then to mitigate the damage, or what Shklar calls
passive injustice. With this broader definition comes a call for
greater responsibility from both citizens and public servants. When
we attempt to make political decisions about what to do in specific
instances of injustice, says Shklar, we must give the victim's
voice its full weight. This is in keeping with the best impulses of
democracy and is our only alternative to a complacency that is
bound to favor the unjust.
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