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The Concept of Justice

Is Social Justice Just?

by Professor Thomas Patrick Burke

  • Hardback
  • 250 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

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For readers interested in philosophy and justice topics

Clarifies the confusion around social justice concepts

You will gain a deeper understanding of true justice

This book critically examines the concept of justice through a traditional lens.

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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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  • Author

    Professor Thomas Patrick Burke

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    April 2011

  • Weight

    527g

  • Page Count

    250

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441169914

  • ISBN-10

    1441169911

  • Eden Code

    4639384

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