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Author : Robert Waelder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The concept of justice and the quest for an absolutely just society written by Robert Waelder and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743215079
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Cosmic Justice written by Thomas Sowell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom -- amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed -- and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage.
Author : Gerald Gaus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183422
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Tyranny of the Ideal written by Gerald Gaus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. He argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice—essentially, the entire production of theories of justice that has dominated political philosophy for the past forty years—needs to change. Drawing on recent work in social science and philosophy, Gaus points to an important paradox: only those in a heterogeneous society—with its various religious, moral, and political perspectives—have a reasonable hope of understanding what an ideally just society would be like. However, due to its very nature, this world could never be collectively devoted to any single ideal. Gaus defends the moral constitution of this pluralistic, open society, where the very clash and disagreement of ideals spurs all to better understand what their personal ideals of justice happen to be. Presenting an original framework for how we should think about morality, The Tyranny of the Ideal rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.
Author : Michael Hudson
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
ISBN 13 : 0856833843
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (568 download)
Download or read book A Philosophy for a Fair Society written by Michael Hudson and published by Shepheard-Walwyn. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the eclipse of the New Right, politicians now admit that society is in crisis. Something must be done, but, explain the authors, governments will fail again unless they shake off the economic orthodoxy that is now one of the problems rather than the means to a solution. This book investigates the roots of the problem, both historically and theoretically. Dr Michael Hudson draws on archaeology and history, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia through Rome to Byzantium, to show how a destructive virus crept into the body politic. This led to a breakdown in man's relation to the environment and divided society into a wealthy ruling oligarchy and an impoverished majority.
Author : Jake C. Miller
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590330685
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Prophets of a Just Society written by Jake C. Miller and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was made possible by a grant from the United Negro College and Fellowship Program, and a leave of absence by Bethune-Cookman College. It was written for the purpose of enhancing knowledge of non-violent resistance as a means of resolving social conflicts. Specifically, the book analyses the contributions of Mohandas K Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Albert J Luthuli and Desmond M Tutu to the non-violent effort. The book is dedicated both to those who have sacrificed to advance the cause of peace through non-violent resistance, and those who continue to advocate its use.
Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516366
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Community written by Robert Nisbet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. This edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus features a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.
Author : Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110711392X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Good Governance written by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.
Author : F.A. Hayek
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678200X
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19 written by F.A. Hayek and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of F. A. Hayek’s three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume In this critical entry in the University of Chicago’s Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek’s three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek’s writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essential reading for understanding the philosopher’s politics and worldview. These three volumes constitute a scaling up of the framework offered in Hayek’s famed The Road to Serfdom. Volume 1, Rules and Order, espouses the virtues of classical liberalism; Volume 2, The Mirage of Social Justice, examines the societal forces that undermine liberalism and, with it, liberalism’s capacity to induce “spontaneous order”; and Volume 3, The Political Order of a Free People, proposes alternatives and interventions against emerging anti-liberal movements, including a rule of law that resides in stasis with personal freedom. Shearmur’s treatment of this challenging work—including an immersive new introduction, a conversion of Hayek’s copious endnotes to footnotes, corrections to Hayek’s references and quotations, and the provision of translations to material that Hayek cited only in languages other than English—lends it new importance and accessibility. Rendered anew for the next generations of scholars, this revision of Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty is sure to become the standard.
Author : Richard Jaffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999472828
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Quest for Justice written by Richard Jaffe and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Jaffe's explosive second edition of Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned affirms the vital role criminal defense lawyers play in the balance between life and death, liberty and lockup. It is a compelling journey into the legal and human drama of life or death criminal cases that often reads more like hard to imagine fiction, yet these cases are real. Quest for Justice invites readers into the courtroom and into the field with Richard Jaffe, a powerhouse Alabama defense attorney with more than four decades of experience, who has successfully defended hundreds of individuals accused of murder, including more than seventy cases where the defendant faced the death penalty, including the Olympic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, in Alabama, nine people have been exonerated from death row-Jaffe represented four of them: James Willie "Bo" Cochran, Randal Padgett, Gary Drinkard, and Wesley Quick. Though every chapter reveals more alarming, gut-wrenching cases, and impediments to justice, Jaffe's unwavering determination, hope, and strategies in the courtroom yield many momentous victories for his clients and the cause of justice. In Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned, Richard Jaffe offers all audiences an accessible, page-turning perspective borne out of a life representing the damned in America's criminal justice system.
Author : Clyde P. Greer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Quest for a Just Society, 1945-1981 written by Clyde P. Greer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Bard Schmookler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262264532
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Debating the Good Society written by Andrew Bard Schmookler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war incontemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is goodsocial order to be achieved? Through the ingenious means of a fictional Internet conversation among two dozen or so Americans from various walks of life and every shade of the ideological spectrum, Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war in contemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is good social order to be achieved? Traditionalists and conservatives, who tend to view human nature as inherently sinful, argue that good order must be imposed from above, by parental authority and ruling powers, by the forces of law and tradition, and, ultimately, by God. Counterculturalists and liberals, who tend to believe in the inherent goodness of human nature, claim that well-supported children will develop into well-ordered adults and that adults empowered to make their own choices will form a healthy, well-ordered society. These opposing visions underlie a host of current controversies, including philosophies of child-rearing and education, social and political policy, sexual morality, and the evolution-creation debate. By exposing the limitations of both points of view, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the culture war presents a challenge to all Americans. This challenge is to integrate the half-truths advanced by both sides into a higher wisdom, one that promises to take the American experiment—to see whether humans can enjoy both the blessings of liberty and the fruits of good order—to the next level of its evolution, toward which it has been straining for the better part of a century.
Author : Volker Prott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191083550
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Self-Determination written by Volker Prott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Self-Determination examines the territorial restructuring of Europe between 1917 and 1923, when a radically new and highly fragile peace order was established. It opens with an exploration of the peace planning efforts of Great Britain, France, and the United States in the final phase of the First World War. It then provides an in-depth view on the practice of Allied border drawing at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, focussing on a new factor in foreign policymaking-academic experts employed by the three Allied states to aid in peace planning and border drawing. This examination of the international level is juxtaposed with two case studies of disputed regions where the newly drawn borders caused ethnic violence, albeit with different results: the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France in 1918-19, and the Greek-Turkish War between 1919 and 1922. A final chapter investigates the approach of the League of Nations to territorial revisionism and minority rights, thereby assessing the chances and dangers of the Paris peace order over the course of the 1920s and 1930s. Volker Prott argues that at both the international and the local levels, the 'temptation of violence' drove key actors to simplify the acclaimed principle of national self-determination and use ethnic definitions of national identity. While the Allies thus hoped to avoid uncomfortable decisions and painstaking efforts to establish an elusive popular will, local elites, administrations, and paramilitary leaders soon used ethnic notions of identity to mobilise popular support under the guise of international legitimacy. Henceforth, national self-determination ceased to be a tool of peace-making and instead became an ideology of violent resistance.
Author : John Maulhardt
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1645598659
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Unity Project written by John Maulhardt and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world today seems to be spiraling out of control. Fears of a renewed cold war, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, fake news and disinformation, along with an impending environmental apocalypse, all combine to push us toward a sense of hopelessness and ennui. But even though it is hidden far below the surface, mankind's past is actually slowly evolving for the better. And now we find ourselves at perhaps a crucial point in our history where we have a powerful concoction made up of brilliant innovators, powerful spiritual reconcilers, and the necessary technological tools that could accelerate that path dramatically forward. All that is needed is the right catalyst to ignite this formula into an unstoppable chain reaction of peace and democratic prosperity. This is a story of how a simple indigenous man of the earth-called by the simple peaceful spirituality of his people-sparks a worldwide movement that leads to a much better planet. Combining a cast of many of today's real-life people of vision, in conjunction with the use of today's amazing technological advancements, our hero leads an epic struggle to overcome-not only the world's dark forces-but the dark forces of unworthy self-doubt within himself. We trust that you will find this simple hope-filled fantasy not really so fanciful after all, but actually quite plausible-and perhaps even inspirational and motivational.
Author : Richard Dien Winfield
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143842423X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Reason and Justice written by Richard Dien Winfield and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-07-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a finely argued, detailed, and comprehensive systematic theory of justice, brilliantly extending Hegelian ethics much as Rawls's Theory of Justice rehabilitated and extended classical Liberalism. Winfield argues that justice, like reason, must be self-grounding, and that to achieve this, it must be self-determined. The theory of justice must therefore abandon its appeal to metaphysically given or transcendentally constituted norms and instead determine the institutions of freedom. In pursuit of this task, Winfield offers insightful discussions of property relations, morality, the family, capital and commodity relations, economic and social justice, and the state. In contrast to Liberalism, which sees the state as instrumental to non-political ends, Winfield defends the democratic state as the just realization of freedom. Throughout, it is argued that justice is defined interactively, where one's freedom is determined by how one's interactions respect and foster the institutional freedom of others. Although the author's arguments proceed systematically, at each stage he deals adroitly with the relevant major thinkers in the Western tradition—not only with Hegel, but with the ancients, the classical liberals, Marx, and contemporaries such as Rawls.
Author : Khaled Fahmy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520395611
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book In Quest of Justice written by Khaled Fahmy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.
Author : Mengia Hong Tschalaer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107155770
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Muslim Women's Quest for Gender Justice written by Mengia Hong Tschalaer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"--
Author : Rhea V. Almeida
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Transformative Family Therapy written by Rhea V. Almeida and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal and relational problems are situated in broader social issues to form a healing context."--BOOK JACKET.
