Just people : virtue, equality, and respect /
"Justice has come to be something that societies or states or institutions have. It has not always been that way. Justice began as something between individual people, and only recently has its application to larger groups become predominant. This book makes a case for recovering the original p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Justice has come to be something that societies or states or institutions have. It has not always been that way. Justice began as something between individual people, and only recently has its application to larger groups become predominant. This book makes a case for recovering the original priority of justice in and between individual people, as a virtue of character. The model for this virtue comes from Aristotle, whose own notion of the virtue of justice has notable shortcomings. Here the case is made that we should understand justice in people as a matter of recognition of and respect for equal authority to obligate one another"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197801499 0197801498 9780197801505 0197801501 9780197801482 019780148X |