A blindfolded woman holding a balance and a sword personifies one of
our most significant virtues. We find Lady Justice in statues and
paintings that adorn courts and other institutions of law, symbolizing
strength and impartiality. Yet why do we valorize this virtue
primarily as a quality of societies, and secondly as one of individual
character? We can trace the virtue of justice to ancient Greece, where
virtue ethics began its long evolution. There justice was seen as one
of the most prominent virtues - and arguably the most important of the
social virtues. With time, political philosophy diverted focus to
understanding justice as a property of societies, and discussion of
justice as a virtue of individuals diminished. But justice as a virtue
of individual character has, along with the other virtues, reasserted
itself not only in philosophy but in social psychology and other
empirical fields of study. This volume aims to demonstrate the breadth
of that thinking and research. It comprises new essays solicited from
philosophers and political theorists, psychologists, economists,
biologists, and legal scholars. Each contribution focuses on some
aspect of what makes people just, either by examining the science that
explains the development of justice as a virtue, by highlighting
virtue cultivation within distinctive traditions of empirical or
philosophical thought, or by adopting a distinctive perspective on
justice as an individual trait. As the volume shows, justice begins
with the individual, and flows outward to make just laws and just
societies.
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ISBN
9780190631772
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
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Oxford University Press Academic US
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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