The Lesser Good - The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas

Informationen zum Autor By Wendy C. Hamblet Klappentext The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies of Plato and post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanual Levinas, Hamblet demonstrates that state models of justice strive for the lesser good of ordered continuity of their forms, rather than promoting citizen internalization, of the "higher goods" of ethics-humility, self-overcoming, and compassion for the weak and suffering. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. Ethics as "First Philosophy" Chapter 3 3. The Time of Ethics and Justice Chapter 4 4. Ethics and the Places of Justice Chapter 5 5. The Nature of Subjectivity Chapter 6 6. The Nurture of Ethics and Justice Chapter 7 7. Justice Misplaced and Out of Time Chapter 8 8. Resolving the Mystery of Unethical Justice Chapter 9 9. Between Ethics and Justice

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• Authors: Wendy C. Hamblet, Hamblet Wendy C.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2008
• EAN: 9780739127612
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2761-2
• No. of pages: 117
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
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