Concept of Justice : Is Social Justice Just?

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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, thebook 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 e.Abstract: 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, this bookgoes on to explore the historical roots of these ideas of social justice.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Burke
Thomas Patrick - Language
- English
- Series
- Continuum studies in political philosophy
- ISBN
- 9781441192257
- Release date
- 2011