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Justice and Judgement is a comprehensive introduction to theories of judgement in contemporary political and moral philosophy. The book offers a critical examination of judgement in the recent works of Rawls, Habermas, Ackerman, Michelman and Dworkin, including an historical overview of the judgement model in contemporary political philosophy; the function of the constitution; and deliberative democracy. The book concludes with a discussion of universalism and contemporary liberalism and the judgement view of justice.
Introduction
Introduction
In its course the twentieth century has demolished many of the certainties which it inherited from earlier stages of modernity. Progress, the universality of reason, the benign nature of science, the limitlessness of economic growth, the irreversibility of modernization and of secularization are among the ideas that have fallen victim to its critical axe. On the other hand, the somewhat facile image of a largely sceptical and iconoclastic century has to be balanced with the fact that the twentieth century has injected new substance into the notion of democracy – one notion that not only has survived its critical scrutiny but has emerged from it endowed with a renewed vigour and enriched with a new appreciation of social rights, of the role of the ...
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