A Brief History of Justice
Johnston, David / Scherer, Mike
The idea of justice has been central to political philosophy since its origin. Indeed, the two towering book-ends to Western political thought - Plato's Republic and John Rawls' milestone 1971 publication, A Theory of Justice - are both essays on justice . Structured around the historical and conceptual relationship between distributive and corrective justice, A Brief History of Justice traces the development of this fundamental idea from anti...