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Comment un philosophe ou un théoricien aborde-t-il une question en philosophie politique ? À quel exercice de la pensée se prête-t-il pour régler les problèmes bien réels et souvent très complexes qui se présentent à lui ? Pour l'auteur de cette introduction à la philosophie politique, l'investigation des concepts et des intuitions ainsi que le développement du sens critique sont des étapes nécessaires à la compréhension des principaux débats qui nous occupent encore aujourd'hui. Dans ce livre, il s'agit donc de présenter des questions, mais aussi des théories. Christian Nadeau y traite de justice et de démocratie à travers le prisme de l'argumentation philosophique. Peut-on concevoir la démocratie comme un obstacle à la justice ? Est-ce que la démocratie est par définition juste et ne peut donc donner lieu qu'à des décisions justes ? Ces problématiques, comme celles de la liberté, des conflits sociaux, du pluralisme sont disséquées à la lumière du débat contemporain et des différentes approches théoriques. Finalement, au-delà des questions politiques soulevées, le lecteur trouvera dans la singularité de cet ouvrage toutes les bases d'une initiation à la philosophie, qui lui permettront d'élaborer sa propre réflexion sur les sujets qui l'intéressent.

Justice (Philosophy)

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Knowledge, Theory of. --- Justice (Philosophy)

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Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.

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What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due. However, what that means in practice depends on the context in which the question is raised. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, therefore, is a constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and unity. Nonetheless, the integrity of justice is limited, in a way that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of a building. A theory of justice offers individuals a map of that neighborhood, within which they can explore just what elements amount to justice.

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