{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-justice-isbn-9781405155779","title":"A Brief History of Justice","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Brief History of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJustice\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justice \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how complex ideas are anchored in ordinary intuitions about justice \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the emergence of the idea of social justice \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentifies connections as well as differences between distributive and corrective justice \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers accessible, concise introductions to the thought of several leading figures and schools of thought in the history of philosophy \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments ix  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: From the Standard Model to a Sense of Justice 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Terrain of Justice 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Teleology and Tutelage in Plato's Republic 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Aristotle's Theory of Justice 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 From Nature to Artifice: Aristotle to Hobbes 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Emergence of Utility 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Kant's Theory of Justice 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Idea of Social Justice 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Theory of Justice as Fairness 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: From Social Justice to Global Justice? 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Names 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSource Notes 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 257\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Highly recommended.  Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.” (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 March 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science and formerly Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:placename w:st=\"on\"\u003eColumbia\u003c\/st1:placename\u003e \u003cst1:placetype w:st=\"on\"\u003eUniversity\u003c\/st1:placetype\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of a Liberal Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eLeviathan: A Norton Critical Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. with Richard Flathman, 1997), and \u003ci\u003eEquality\u003c\/i\u003e (ed., 2000).  The idea of justice has been central to political philosophy since its origin. Indeed, the two towering book-ends to Western political thought -- Plato's \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e and John Rawls' milestone 1971 publication, \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e are both essays on justice\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003eStructured around the historical and conceptual relationship between distributive and corrective justice, \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrief History of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJustice\u003c\/i\u003e traces the development of this fundamental idea from antiquity to the present day. This wide-ranging, yet concise book delves deeply into the evolving traditions of justice, from roots in Babylonian and Hebrew law and Greek political thought to the most prominent contemporary renderings in the work of Rawls and other modern thinkers, including incisive chapter-length introductions to the work of Plato, Aristotle, the utilitarians, Kant, and Rawls.  David Johnston weaves a sophisticated, yet accessible, narrative, integrating philosophical discussion with pressing contemporary questions about justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith clarity and scholarly precision, \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers an invaluable survey of an important and powerful concept that continues to dominate the field of political philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"David Johnston has given us what we have long lacked, a fine and readable account of the importance of justice, which focuses as much (or more) on the heritage of our thought about this matter as on the detail of the particular theories that have preoccupied philosophers for the past thirty years.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eJeremy Waldron\u003c\/b\u003e, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford; and University Professor, NYU Law School","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988598374629,"sku":"NP9781405155779","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405155779.jpg?v=1761780912","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-brief-history-of-justice-isbn-9781405155779","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}