In this chapter, a broad philosophical journey will be taken through the concept of justice starting with the classical idea of virtue ethics and arriving at the nowadays criticized liberal egalitarianism. It looks at early paradigms, starting with the metaphysically harmonious constructions of Plato and the teleological and virtuous worldviews of Aristotle and going through the contractarian revolutions of Hobbes, Locke, and Kant. Rawlsian liberalism is engaged critically together with feminist, communitarian, and the postcolonial objections, which put the focus on the embodiment, recognition, and multiplicity of epistemic authority. The chapter posits an inter-dimensional concept of justice that is procedural, distributive, recognitional, and relational and it advocates normative fusion without universalistic reductionism. It roots justice as a human flourishing condition based on the capabilities approach, recognition theory, and intersectionality. This interrogation regarding the conflict between ideal and nonideal theory, and between global pluralism and cosmopolitan ethics, allows the chapter to articulate a plural, context-sensitive, and morally urgent vision of justice, one capable of maintaining philosophical clarity without losing its accountability to real-world injustice.

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Theoretical Foundations of Justice

  • Sooraj Kumar Maurya

摘要

In this chapter, a broad philosophical journey will be taken through the concept of justice starting with the classical idea of virtue ethics and arriving at the nowadays criticized liberal egalitarianism. It looks at early paradigms, starting with the metaphysically harmonious constructions of Plato and the teleological and virtuous worldviews of Aristotle and going through the contractarian revolutions of Hobbes, Locke, and Kant. Rawlsian liberalism is engaged critically together with feminist, communitarian, and the postcolonial objections, which put the focus on the embodiment, recognition, and multiplicity of epistemic authority. The chapter posits an inter-dimensional concept of justice that is procedural, distributive, recognitional, and relational and it advocates normative fusion without universalistic reductionism. It roots justice as a human flourishing condition based on the capabilities approach, recognition theory, and intersectionality. This interrogation regarding the conflict between ideal and nonideal theory, and between global pluralism and cosmopolitan ethics, allows the chapter to articulate a plural, context-sensitive, and morally urgent vision of justice, one capable of maintaining philosophical clarity without losing its accountability to real-world injustice.