Justice is Conflict Contributor(s): Hampshire, Stuart (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691089744 ISBN-13: 9780691089744 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: "Hampshire's contribution to philosophy . . . is highly individual. . . . His work displays a broad and systematic outlook, concerned with bringing together views in the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. . . . His philosophical style is distinctive, a sensitive blend of the argumentative and the exploratory."--Bernard Williams, "The Encyclopedia of Philosophy" |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
Dewey: 320.011 |
LCCN: 99017490 |
Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.36" H x 4.56" W x 7.38" (0.26 lbs) 120 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book, which inaugurates the Princeton Monographs in Philosophy series, starts from Plato's analogy in the Republic between conflict in the soul and conflict in the city. Plato's solution required reason to impose agreement and harmony on the warring passions, and this search for harmony and agreement constitutes the main tradition in political philosophy up to and including contemporary liberal theory. Hampshire undermines this tradition by developing a distinction between justice in procedures, which demands that both sides in a conflict should be heard, and justice in matters of substance, which will always be disputed. Rationality in private thinking consists in adversary reasoning, and so it does in public affairs. Moral conflict is eternal, and institutionalized argument is its only universally acceptable restraint and the only alternative to tyranny. In the chapter Against Monotheism, Hampshire argues that monotheistic beliefs are only with difficulty made compatible with pluralism in ethics. In Conflict and Conflict Resolution, he argues that socialism, seen as the proposal of extended political solutions for natural human ills, is still a relevant, yet strongly contested, ideal. |