Concept of Justice

by T. Patrick Burke

Book Overview

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, the book goes on to explore the historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441169911
• ISBN13: 9781441169914
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"