Social justice has been the animating ideal of democratic governments throughout the twentieth century. Even those who oppose it recognize its potency. Yet the meaning of social justice remains obscure, and existing theories put forward by political philosophers to explain it have failed to capture the way people in general think about issues of social justice. This book develops a new theory. …
Justice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice, critically analyzing basic concepts underlying most theories of justice such as impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Drawing on the experiences and concerns of social movements created by marginalized and excluded groups, Iris Marion Young shows how…
Social Justice Reconsidered is an attempt to refocus debate about justice. David Mapel argues that some of the more ambitious theories of justice have failed to establish themselves because they seek too high a degree of precision, because they have tried to provide criteria for ranking all possible (or feasible) social systems according the the justice of their distributions.
This book examines How Israel utilized the social justice thought of other Near Eastern peoples to face its own justice crises. It analyzes the Hebrew Bible's statements about this issue in its law codes, prophetic books, psalms, narrative works, and wisdom literature. The basis for this analysis is Near Eastern sayings on justice and the social setting of Israel's justice concern.
This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness …