The Two Faces of JusticeHarvard University Press, 2006 M05 15 - 264 páginas Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favorable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly fail to. Even if we appear to have overcome the difficulty, our reluctance often betrays itself in certain moral emotions. In this book, Jiwei Ci explores the dual nature of justice, in an attempt to make unitary sense of key features of justice reflected in its close relation to resentment, punishment, and forgiveness. Rather than pursue a search for normative principles, he probes the human psychology of justice to understand what motivates moral agents who seek to behave justly, and why their desire to be just is as precarious as it is uplifting. A wide-ranging treatment of enduring questions, The Two Faces of Justice can also be read as a remarkably discerning contribution to the Western discourse on justice re-launched in our time by John Rawls. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Elements of a Just Disposition | 13 |
The Subjective Circumstances of Justice | 45 |
The Objective Circumstances of Justice | 67 |
The Idea of Voluntary Justice | 93 |
The Moral Reach of Rational Egoism | 102 |
Impartiality and Justification | 116 |
A Progress of Reciprocity | 135 |
Two Paths to Unconditional Justice | 157 |
Forgetting and Resentment | 173 |
Individual Forgiveness Social Resentment | 187 |
Justice and the Moralization of Sympathy | 206 |
Justice as a Conscious Virtue | 232 |
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actions Allan Gibbard altruism Arthur Schopenhauer autonomy Barry benevolence breaches of reciprocity Cambridge Chapter circumstances of justice conception of justice conditional conditionality of justice conflict conscience David Hume desire disposition toward justice distinct emphasis added exchange forgiveness Friedrich Nietzsche friendship Gibbard guilt Habermas human Hume Hume's Humean Ibid idea Immanuel Kant impartial arguments individuals injustice interests intrinsic John Rawls Jürgen Habermas Kant Kantian kind ment moral psychology motive of justice mutual advantage nature need for justice Nietzsche objective circumstances one's oneself original motive other-regarding overcome person point of view possible practice justice premoral principles psychological punishment question R. J. Hollingdale rational egoism Rawls Rawls's reasonable pluralism reciprocity of justice regard relationship resentment role of justice Schopenhauer Schopenhauer's self-interest self-overcoming sense of justice social society subject-centered justice sympathy theory of justice tice tion tive trans treat unconditional University Press virtue of justice voluntary justice Walter Kaufmann