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The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions (Paperback)
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The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions (Paperback)
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The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige,
which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to
such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the
possibility of a good conscience for those who undertake, in good
faith, to make the world a better place in the spheres of politics
and law. The many decent human beings who have noticed and
experienced this diminishment of justice's prestige find themselves
in a thoroughly disenchanted existential situation. For them, the
attempt to do justice without the illusion of being grounded in
something beyond the sheer facticity of their own performances is a
distinctly ethical theme, which cries out to be investigated in its
own right. Heeding the cry, this book asks and attempts to answer
the following fundamental ethical question: is a life in the law -
even one spent in the pursuit of justice - worth living, and if so,
how can a disenchanted person come to bear the living of it without
constantly having to engage in self-deception? If Nietzsche is
right that living without illusions is impossible for human beings,
then the most important ethical implication of this essentially
anthropological fact goes far beyond the question of what illusions
we ought to choose. It must also include the question of whether we
should succumb to that most seductive and pernicious of all
illusions: namely, the belief that exercising great care and
responsibility in choosing our illusions - which we might then call
our 'principles of justice' - excuses us ethically for what we do
to others in their name. The culmination of a 10 year
legal-philosophical project, this book will appeal to graduate
students, scholars and curious non-academic intellectuals
interested in continental philosophy, critical legal theory,
postmodern theology, the philosophy of human rights and the study
of individual ethics in the context of law.
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