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Justice

Views from the Social Sciences

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Ronald L. Cohen

    1. Bennington College, Bennington, USA

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Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Social Justice (CISJ)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ronald L. Cohen
    Pages 1-9

  3. Philosophy and Justice

    • Allen Buchanan, Deborah Mathieu
    Pages 11-45

  4. Economics and Justice

    • Stephen T. Worland
    Pages 47-84

  5. Political Studies and Justice

    • Arthur DiQuattro
    Pages 85-116

  6. Sociology and Justice

    • Steve Rytina
    Pages 117-151

  7. Psychology and Justice

    • Lita Furby
    Pages 153-203

  8. Anthropology and Justice

    • Laura Nader, Andrée Sursock
    Pages 205-233

  9. Public Policy and Justice

    • Karol Soltan
    Pages 235-268

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 269-283
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Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard in social life. It is invoked in judging individual persons and in judging the basic structure of societies. It has been described as akin to a "human hunger or thirst" (Pascal, Pensees, cited in Hirschman, 1982, p. 91), "more powerful than any physical hunger, and endlessly resilient" (Pitkin, 1981, p. 349). The most prominent contemporary theory of justice proceeds from the claim that justice is "the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is systems of thought" (Rawls, 1971, p. 3). However, as the following chapters demonstrate, justice has a complex and controversial history. If, as has been claimed, justice is a central category of human thought and a central aspect of human motivation, can it also be the case that to invoke justice is no more than "banging on the table: an emotional expression which turns one's demand into an absolute postulate" (Ross, 1959, p. 274)? If justice is the first virtue of social institutions, can the concept of social or economic justice at the same time be "entirely empty and meaningless" so that any attempt to employ it is "either thoughtless or fraudulent" (Hayek, 1976, pp. xi-xii)? In a formal sense, justice concerns ensuring that each person receives what she or he is due.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bennington College, Bennington, USA

    Ronald L. Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Justice

  • Book Subtitle: Views from the Social Sciences

  • Editors: Ronald L. Cohen

  • Series Title: Critical Issues in Social Justice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3511-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42256-0Published: 31 October 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-3513-7Published: 30 September 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3511-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-1906

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 284

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general

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