The Two Faces of Justice / / Jiwei Ci.

Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favorable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But our will to act justly is subject to conditions...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Elements of a Just Disposition
  • 2 The Subjective Circumstances of Justice
  • 3 The Objective Circumstances of Justice
  • 4 The Idea of Voluntary Justice
  • 5 The Moral Reach of Rational Egoism
  • 6 Impartiality and Justification
  • 7 A Progress of Reciprocity
  • 8 Two Paths to Unconditional Justice
  • 9 Forgetting and Resentment
  • 10 Individual Forgiveness, Social Resentment
  • 11 Justice and the Moralization of Sympathy
  • 12 Justice as a Conscious Virtue
  • Index