Author : Thomas Fleming
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1974-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780465063147
A generous selection from the playful, irreverent, and controversial work of Ishmael Reed, one of the greatest African American writers
Author : Gerald Gaus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691183422
In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. He argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice—essentially, the entire production of theories of justice that has dominated political philosophy for the past forty years—needs to change. Drawing on recent work in social science and philosophy, Gaus points to an important paradox: only those in a heterogeneous society—with its various religious, moral, and political perspectives—have a reasonable hope of understanding what an ideally just society would be like. However, due to its very nature, this world could never be collectively devoted to any single ideal. Gaus defends the moral constitution of this pluralistic, open society, where the very clash and disagreement of ideals spurs all to better understand what their personal ideals of justice happen to be. Presenting an original framework for how we should think about morality, The Tyranny of the Ideal rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.
Author : Daniel A. Bell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742580407
What is justice? Great political philosophers from Plato to Rawls have traditionally argued that there is a single, principled answer to this question. Challenging this conventional wisdom, David Miller theorized that justice can take many different forms. In Forms of Justice, a distinguished group of political philosophers takes Miller's theory as a starting point and debates whether justice takes one form or many. Drawing real world implications from theories of justice and examining in depth social justice, national justice, and global justice, this book falls on the cutting edge of the latest developments in political theory. Sure to generate debate among political theorists and social scientists, Forms of Justice is indispensable reading for anyone attentive to the intersection between philosophy and politics.
Author : Ofer Mazar
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609766555
"The story I am about to unfold, my dear reader, is a journey into my chaotic soul..."An intense and moving love story, which describes a forty-year voyage into the soul of a troubled, delicate, breathtaking beauty-a phenomenally intelligent woman who was struck by an excruciating obsession in the form of her high school sweetheart, a talented athlete and musician named Roy, who was banished at a crucial moment from her life by her protective father. "I woke up to a new reality... my life would never be the same again...."As Lisa becomes sober, still devastated by the loss of the love of her life, she takes a new name, creates an alter ego, and enters law school. Battling life, pursuing a career as a successful criminal lawyer, marrying a man she does not love, raising a child born for all the wrong reasons, Lisa keeps the memory of Roy in her heart, dreaming of the day they'll reunite. The years pass and her obsession becomes pathetic even to her; yet she clings to it vehemently.
Author : William Bernhardt
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 1995-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345391330
"BERNHARDT IS A MASTER LEGAL TOUR GUIDE, taking the reader through the labyrinth of the judicial system of America's heartland." --Mostly Murder A young Vietnamese immigrant is brutally slaughtered by a crossbow. The prime suspect is a ruthless member of a white supremacy group. When attorney Ben Kincaid reluctantly agrees to confer with the presumed murderer, he encounters a chilling certainty: an innocent man has been cast as a scapegoat. To rebalance the scales of justice, Ben chooses to represent the accused man--thereby placing both attorney and client at the explosive center of a community torn apart by xenophobia, racism, and violence. But the real fireworks will go off in court--in an incendiary murder trial with more twists than a dustbowl tornado (. "REWARDS ITS READERS WITH A GENUINELY SURPRISE ENDING WHILE ALSO RAISING SERIOUS ISSUES." --The Orlando Sentinel
Author : William Bernhardt
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145327717X
DIVRetired from law, Ben Kincaid is forced to return to the bar when a case—and a corpse—fall in his lap/divDIV After years of struggling, Ben Kincaid shuts down his small legal office and decides to make a living doing something that—compared to practicing law in Tulsa—is easy money: playing jazz piano. He buys a minivan to haul his gear, and gets steady gigs playing in a combo at Uncle Earl’s Jazz Emporium. His new career is just starting to take off when a body falls from the Emporium ceiling, knocking the wind out of Kincaid and sending him right back to his old profession./divDIV /divDIVThe dead woman is Cajun Lily Campbell, a grand dame of the Tulsa music scene and onetime girlfriend of Uncle Earl himself. And Kincaid must be careful as he readies the old jazzman’s defense, because there is a killer on the north side of town who would like nothing more than to hear the piano player’s last tune./div
Author : Ken Wytsma
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0849964660
Examines the concept of biblical justice and the meaning of righteousness, using evangelical theology and personal narratives to show the importance of giving one's life away and living with justice, mercy, and humility.
Author : Paul Bergman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780740754609
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Author : Preet Bharara
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0525521135
*A New York Times Bestseller* An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast. Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it must be protected, but to do so, he argues, we must also acknowledge and allow for flaws both in our justice system and in human nature. Bharara uses the many illustrative anecdotes and case histories from his storied, formidable career—the successes as well as the failures—to shed light on the realities of the legal system and the consequences of taking action. Inspiring and inspiringly written, Doing Justice gives us hope that rational and objective fact-based thinking, combined with compassion, can help us achieve truth and justice in our daily lives. Sometimes poignant and sometimes controversial, Bharara's expose is a thought-provoking, entertaining book about the need to find the humanity in our legal system as well as in our society.
Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1429952687
A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? Michael J. Sandel's "Justice" course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and this fall, public television will air a series based on the course. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students. This book is a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice, one that invites readers of all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways. Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, the moral limits of markets—Sandel dramatizes the challenge of thinking through these con?icts, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well. Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise—an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.
