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The Concept of Injustice.

The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory.?Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice.? Misled by the word's etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heinze, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory.?Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice.? Misled by the word's etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the sheer, logical opposite of justice.?Heinze summons ancient and early modern texts, philosophical and literary, with special attention to Shakespeare, to argue that injustice is not primarily the negation, failure or absence of justice.? It is the constant product of regimes and norms of justice.? Justi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (223 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136205736
113620573X
9780203094242
0203094247