Forgotten justice : forms of justice in the history of legal and political theory / Allan Beever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beever, Allan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy--History.

Law.

Justice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (941 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout much of the history of political philosophy, many of the great philosophers begin their work with an investigation of private law. Why is this? And why is the central focus of our modern concern, the state, examined so late in their works? This book suggests an answer to these and related questions. It reveals that there are two general ways of thinking about the legal and the political: the modern which sees all through the lens of the state, and the traditional whichbegins with individuals and with the normative relations that exist between them building only slowly towards the co

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Figures; Introduction; The Modern Conception of Political Philosophy and Law; PART I: Discovery; Plato: A Beginning; Plato: A New Beginning; Aristotle; Cicero; PART II: Establishment; Aquinas; Pufendorf; Kant; PART III: Forgetting; Hobbes; Locke; The Utilitarians; PART IV: Implications; Legal Analysis; Political Philosophy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes; Introductionfn; Ch01fn; Ch02fn; Ch03fn; Ch04fn; Ch05fn; Part02fn; Ch06fn; Ch07fn; Ch08fn; Part03fn; Ch09fn; Ch10fn; Ch11fn; Ch12fn; Ch13fn; Ch14fn

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-175547-8

0-19-166299-2

0-19-166298-4

OCLC:

841911005