A Brief History of Justice

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5576-2

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278 pages

July 2011, Wiley-Blackwell

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A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice.

An accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justice
Shows how complex ideas are anchored in ordinary intuitions about justice
Traces the emergence of the idea of social justice
Identifies connections as well as differences between distributive and corrective justice
Offers accessible, concise introductions to the thought of several leading figures and schools of thought in the history of philosophy