Titre : | Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life |
Auteurs : | Axel Honneth ; Joseph Ganahl ; Ebscohost |
Type de document : | Books |
Editeur : | Cambridge : Polity, 2014 |
Article en page(s) : | X, 412 p. |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7456-6942-7 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | 320.011 |
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Tags : | Democracy ; Liberty--Philosophy ; Social justice--Philosophy ; Justice (Philosophy) |
Résumé : | Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Honneth addresses this disconnect, and constructs a theory of justice derived from the normative claims of Western liberal-democratic societies and anchored in morally legitimate laws and institutionally established practices. Honneth's paradigm--which he terms "a democratic ethical life"--draws on the spirit of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and his own theory of recognition, demonstrating how concrete social spheres generate the principles of individual freedom and a standard for what is just. Using social analysis to re-found a more grounded theory of justice, he argues that all crucial actions in Western civilization, whether in personal relationships, market-induced economic activities, or the public forum of politics, share one defining characteristic: they require the realization of a particular aspect of individual freedom. This fundamental truth informs the guiding principles of justice, grounding and enabling a wide-ranging reconsideration of its nature and application. |
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