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A Brief History of Justice
By: David JohnstoneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice. An accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justice Shows how complex ideas are anchored in ordinary intuitions about justice Traces the emergence of the idea of social justice Identifies connections as well as differences between distributive and corrective justice Offers accessible, concise introductions to the thought of several leading figures and schools of thought in the history of philosophy
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| Title of eBook: A Brief History of Justice | |
| Release Date: 03-08-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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A Brief History of Justice
Chapter One
The Terrain of Justice
From a twenty-first-century vantage point, ancient ideas about justice are striking for two major reasons. First, the extant ancient texts reveal a preoccupation with retribution, and in some cases unbridled vengeance, that is unsettling to modern readers. Second, the ancient sources uniformly embrace stark hierarchies of power, status, and wealth as embodiments of a just political and social order. The commitments to freedom and equality that are widely shared today in those parts of the world which have been strongly shaped by European ideas are nowhere to be seen, at least not in the earliest sources.
The record of ideas about justice extends back many centuries before the beginnings of philosophy, which was a Greek creation. Collections of laws dating from the late third and early second millennia BCE have been preserved from several kingdoms that once existed in ancient Mesopotamia, including Assyria, Accad, Sumer, and Babylonia itself (into which the territories of Accad and Sumer were combined). Similarities among these sources provide strong evidence for the existence of a common customary Mesopotamian law in the third millennium that bridged political divisions. The most extensive of these collections is the Babylonian law, sometimes known as the Code of Hammurabi, although it more nearly resembles a series of amendments to the common law of Babylon or a set of guidelines than a code or collection of statutes.
The legal guidelines collected in the Code of Hammurabi are preceded by a prologue, written in semi-poetic style, and followed by an epilogue in simil
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