Reflections on the Just - Softcover

David Pellauer, Paul Ricoeur And

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459627075 ISBN 13: 9781459627079

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

At the time of his death in 2005, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur was regarded as one of the great thinkers of his generation. In more than half a century of writing about the essential questions of human life, Ricoeur's thought encompassed a vast range of wisdom and experience, and he made landmark contributions that would go on to influence later scholars in such areas as phenomenology, hermeneutics, structuralis, and theology. Consisting of fifteen thematically organized essays, Reflections on the Just continues and expands on the work Ricoeur began in his ''little ethics'' in Oneself as Another and The Just. In the preface, he considers what revisions he would make were he to start over and how that is reflected in these essays. The opening part brings phenomenology to bear on ethics; the second group of essays comprises shorter, occasional pieces considering the concept of justice int he works of other philosophers, including Max Weber and Charles Taylor. The final part turns to the specific domains of medicine and the law, examining how concepts of right and justice operate in those realms.

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Review

"This book includes a range of close encounters with other theorists, notably Max Weber and Charles Taylor, together with detailed discussions of issues in ''applied ethics'' relating to medicine, politics and law; but the weightiest section is a series of studies of law, authority and morality which culminates, with the quiet panache that is typical of Ricoeur, in an apt but unexpected essay on the art of translation."-Times Higher Education Supplement

"A multifaceted exploration of justice, this fine work includes a substantial introduction by Ricoeur."-Choice

About the Author

Paul Ricoeur (1913 - 2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. David Pellauer has translated many books for the University of Chicago Press, including Paul Ricoeur's The Just and Memory, History, Forgetting. He teaches philosophy at DePaul University.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1459627075
• ISBN 13: 9781459627079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428