ENGLISH

The Concept Of Injustice

By Eric Heinze

Book information

Publisher
Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2013
ISBN
0415524415, 9780415524414, 0415634792, 9780415634793, 0203094247, 9780203094242, 1136205721, 9781136205729, 1283846020, 9781283846028, 113620573X, 9781136205736, 1136205683, 9781136205682
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1323922 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
223\223
Time added
2023-08-04 17:45:48
Justice; Justice (Philosophy); Justice In Literatu

Description

This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice. For 2500 years, philosophers have subordinated the concept of injustice to the concept of justice, as if injustice were only a secondary, derivative notion. This book summons literary classics, notably Shakespeare, to argue that injustice, not justice, should be the focus of our attention. A long line of thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls, have overlooked the central problems of injustice. The book identifies two elements – unity and measurement – that are constantly assumed to be essential to justice. It shows how, in landmark literary classics, it is precisely those two elements that end up generating injustice. Western justice theory, it is concluded, cannot advance until it takes a new approach to the concept and the realities of injustice.

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