Philosophy of Justice [Hardcover]

This book presents surveys of significant trends in contemporary philosophy. Contributing authors explore themes relating to justice including natural rights, equality, freedom, democracy, morality and cultural traditions. Key movements and thinkers are considered, ranging from ancient Greek philosophy, Roman and Christian traditions to the development of Muslim law, Enlightenment perspectives and beyond.

Authors discuss important works, including those of Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Mary Wollstonecraft. Readers are also invited to examine Hegel and the foundation of right, Karl Marx as a utopian socialist and the works of Paul RicSur, amongst the wealth of perspectives presented in this book.

Through these chapters, readers are able to explore the relationship of the state to justice and consider the rights of the individual and the role of law. Contributions presented here discuss concepts including Sharia law, freedom in the community and Libertarian Anarchism. Readers may follow accounts of justice in the Scottish Enlightenment and consider fairness, social justice and the concept of injustice.?

The surveys presented here show different approaches and a variety of interpretations. Each contribution has its own bibliography.

Preface?; Guttorm Fl?istad.- Introduction; Guttorm Fl?istad.- La justice ? la lumi?re des Lois?; Bertrand Saint-Sernin.- Justice and Moderation in the State: Aristotle and Beyond; Eleni Leontsini.- ?Jean Bodin  The Modern State Comes into Being; Thomas Krogh.- Samuel Pufendorf  Natural Law, Moral Entities and the Civil Foundation of Morality; Thor Inge R?rvik.- Hugo Grotius  Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law; Andreas Harald Aure.- Baruch Spinoza: Democracy and Freedom of Speech; Paola De Cuzzani.- Ibn Khaldun: Law and Justice in the Science of Civilisation; Lars Gule.- Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of IlCs