The essays in this book contain some of Paul Ricoeur's most fascinating ruminations on the nature of justice and the law. His thoughts ranging across a number of topics and engaging the work of thinkers both classical and contemporary, Ricoeur offers a series of important reflections on the juridical and the philosophical concepts of right and the space between moral theory and politics.
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“The novelties of this book are the analyses of different phases of judicial practice: hearing, judging, sanction, rehabilitation and pardon. It is fascinating to read how Ricoeur analyses these with his hermeneutics of detours or hermeneutics of distanciation, attempting to do justice to both interpretation and argumentation, both punishment and pardon, and so on.”—Arto Laitinen, Radical Philosophy
“The essays assembled in The Just are at once essential readings for anyone concerned with the link between ethics, law, and politics and perfect complements to the seventh, eighth, and ninth studies contained in Oneself as Another. However, knowledge of Ricoeur’s earlier writings is not a prerequisite for understanding the content of these essays since he retains the style of a moderator by engaging the most powerful authors on justice available: Aristotle, Kant, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, to name a few.”—Paul Gyllenhammer, Review of Metaphysics
“In essays on Rawls, Michael Walzer, and Ronald Dworkin, among American philosophers and Hannah Arendt and Luc Botanski among European theorists, Ricoeur sketches a distinctive position on questions of justice that straddles the liberal/communitarian divide common in the Anglo-American world. . . . [Ricoeur provides] a fresh perspective on current debates within his own interesting account of the structure of moral action.”--Georgia Warnke, Ethics
“In these essays, Ricoeur applies his hermeneutical theory of the capable person, articulated in the magisterial Oneself as Another, to the philosophy of law and justice, demonstrating once again the remarkable breadth of his research project.”—Michael Johnson, Journal of Religion
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The essays in this book contain some of Paul Ricoeur's most fascinating ruminations on the nature of justice and the law. His thoughts ranging across a number of topics and engaging the work of thinkers both classical and contemporary, Ricoeur offers a series of important reflections on the juridical and the philosophical concepts of right and the space between moral theory and politics.
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The book mostly focuses on John Rawls' theory of justice, but Ricoeur does spend time on some other theories. It is well written and concise. The book can be a bit heavy, but will introduce you into ethical theory by giving you names of others that should be read as well.Tho
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I want to show that the question with a juridical form "Who is the subject of rights?" is not to be distinguished in the final analysis from the question with a moral form "Who is the subject worthy of esteem and respect?" (I shall distinguish below between these latter two terms.) Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maximin argument, juridical argumentation, purely procedural conception, juridical plane, deontological point, sacrificial principle, civic city, capable subject, considered convictions, primary social goods, procedural theory, maximin rule, lexical order, complex equality, teleological judgment, cosmopolitan point, capable human being, reflective judgment, strong evaluations, juridical discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hannah Arendt, New York, John Rawls, Immanuel Kant, Doctrine of Right, Cambridge University Press, Golden Rule, Harvard University Press, French Revolution, Hans Jonas, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Basic Books, Critique of Judgment, Matter of Principle, Michael Walzer, Oxford University Press, Perpetual Peace, The Metaphysics of Morals, Thomas Nagel, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Kantian Constructivism, Lewis White Beck, Mary Gregor, Moral Theory, Robert Spämann New!
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I want to show that the question with a juridical form "Who is the subject of rights?" is not to be distinguished in the final analysis from the question with a moral form "Who is the subject worthy of esteem and respect?" (I shall distinguish below between these latter two terms.) Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maximin argument, juridical argumentation, purely procedural conception, juridical plane, deontological point, sacrificial principle, civic city, capable subject, considered convictions, primary social goods, procedural theory, maximin rule, lexical order, complex equality, teleological judgment, cosmopolitan point, capable human being, reflective judgment, strong evaluations, juridical discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hannah Arendt, New York, John Rawls, Immanuel Kant, Doctrine of Right, Cambridge University Press, Golden Rule, Harvard University Press, French Revolution, Hans Jonas, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Basic Books, Critique of Judgment, Matter of Principle, Michael Walzer, Oxford University Press, Perpetual Peace, The Metaphysics of Morals, Thomas Nagel, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Kantian Constructivism, Lewis White Beck, Mary Gregor, Moral Theory, Robert Spämann New!
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- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 13 pages
- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 4 pages
- The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on page 94, page 95, and page 102
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 45
- Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on page 16, page 61, and page 150
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