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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.
The Judgment View of Justice
The Judgment View of Justice
As the reconstruction outlined in the preceding chapters indicates, there is no revolution under way in political philosophy. The paradigm of judgment is just gradually and slowly emerging in a process marked by hesitations and constant relapses into the old kind of universalism as well as by counter-tendencies and resistances to change. In the following two chapters I will try to contribute to the further consolidation of this new way of thinking about justice by way of drafting a judgment-based conception of justice that builds on the different suggestions gleaned from our examination of the works of Rawls, Habermas, Dworkin, Ackerman and Michelman and is designed for fitting coherently with the implications of the linguistic turn ...
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