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Pragmatism and Justice (Hardcover)
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Pragmatism and Justice (Hardcover)
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The essays in this volume answer to anxieties that the pragmatist
tradition has had little to say about justice. While both the
classical and neo-pragmatist traditions have produced a
conspicuously small body of writing about the idea of justice, a
common subtext of the essays in this volume is that there is in
pragmatist thought a set of valuable resources for developing
pragmatist theories of justice, for responding profitably to
concrete injustices, and for engaging with contemporary,
prevailing, liberal theories of justice. Despite the absence of
conventionally philosophical theories of justice in the pragmatist
canon, the writings of many pragmatists demonstrate an obvious
sensitivity and responsiveness to injustice. Many pragmatists were
and are moved by a deep sense of justice-by an awareness of the
suffering of people, by the need to build just institutions, and a
search for a tolerant and non-discriminatory culture that regards
all people as equals. Three related and mutually reinforcing ideas
to which virtually all pragmatists are committed can be discerned:
a prioritization of concrete problems and real-world injustices
ahead of abstract precepts; a distrust of a priori theorizing
(along with a corresponding fallibilism and methodological
experimentalism); and a deep and persistent pluralism, both in
respect to what justice is and requires, and in respect to how
real-world injustices are best recognized and remedied. Ultimately,
Pragmatism and Justice asserts that pragmatism gives us powerful
resources for understanding the idea of justice more clearly and
responding more efficaciously to a world rife with injustice.
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