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The Concept of Justice - Is Social Justice Just? (Hardcover, New)
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The Concept of Justice - Is Social Justice Just? (Hardcover, New)
Series: Continuum Studies in Political Philosophy
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In The Concept of Justice, Patrick Burke explores and argues for a
return to traditional ideas of ordinary justice in opposition to
conceptions of "social justice" that came to dominate political
thought in the 20th Century. Arguing that our notions of justice
have been made incoherent by the radical incompatibility between
instinctive notions of ordinary justice and theoretical conceptions
of social justice, the book goes on to explore the historical roots
of these ideas of social justice. Finding the roots of these ideas
in religious circles in Italy and England in the 19th century,
Burke explores the ongoing religious influence in the development
of the concept in the works of Marx, Mill and Hobhouse. In
opposition to this legacy of liberal thought, the book presents a
new theory of ordinary justice drawing on the thought of Immanuel
Kant. In this light, Burke finds that all genuine ethical
evaluation must presuppose free will and individual responsibility
and that all true injustice is fundamentally coercive.
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