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Beyond Justice

Agnes Heller (1987)


Copyright: Agnes Heller;
First published: 1987 by Basil Blackwell Ltd;
HTML Mark-up: Andy Blunden, 2003.


Contents

Preface

1 THE FORMAL CONCEPT OF JUSTICE

On the formal concept of justice in general
The virtue of justice and the formal concept of justice
Social conflicts viewed from the perspective of static justice
The rules of static justice
The ideas of justice from the perspective of the formal concept of justice
The formal concept of justice and ‘humankind’

2 THE ETHICO-POLITICAL CONCEPT OF JUSTICE

The ethical concept of justice
The emergence of the ethico-political concept of justice
The prophetic idea of justice and the paradox of faith
The philosophical idea of justice and the paradox of reason
The dissolution of the ethico-political concept of justice in modernity
The ethico-political concept of justice and the birth of modernity
The ‘city of the soul’ reconsidered
Beyond justice, or the anthropological revolution
Towards an incomplete ethico-political concept of justice

3 THE CONCEPT OF DYNAMIC JUSTICE

The criteria of justice
The sense of justice
Social and political conflicts viewed from the perspective of dynamic justice

4 THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CONCEPT OF JUSTICE

Retributive Justice
Distributive Justice
‘Just’ and ‘unjust’ war

5 TOWARDS AN INCOMPLETE ETHICO-POLITICAL CONCEPT OF JUSTICE

Is a completely just society possible? Is it desirable?
The normative foundation of an incomplete ethico-political concept of justice: the socio-political aspect
The normative foundation of an incomplete ethico-political concept of justice: the ethical aspect

6 THE GOOD LIFE

The righteous person
Development of endowments into talents, or construction of the self
Emotional intensity in personal attachments
Beyond justice

Notes

Bibliography

Index