TY - BOOK ID - 78075917 TI - Justice and law PY - 2014 SN - 9004271708 9789004271708 9789004271692 9004271694 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Jurisprudence KW - Law KW - Administration of justice KW - Courts KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78075917 AB - Apart from considering classical theories of justice from Aristotle, Plato, Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Bible, and the Quran, the aim of Justice and Law is to focus on the contemporary vista, reviewing some of the modern ideas of justice advanced by legal philosophers of our time, such as John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, Richard A. Posner, Wojciech Sadurski, Marxism, or Feminist Theories. In the second part of the work, María José Falcón y Tella deals with some of the principal themes relating to justice, such as punishment, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, just war, conflict of duties, and tolerance. ER -