Reason and Justice

by Richard Dien Winfield

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887067115
• ISBN13: 9780887067112
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"