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Republicanism And Crime, Richard Dagger
Republicanism And Crime, Richard Dagger
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These are but two of the difficult questions that arise when one examines the claim that crime is a public wrong. I take it, though, that their difficulty is an indication of the importance of thinking through the presuppositions and implications of this conception of crime, not a reason to abandon it. A thorough 'thinking through' is too large and complex a task for this chapter, but it is possible to make a case here for the right way to proceed with such an undertaking. That right way, in my view, is to look to the republican tradition of political …
Property-Owning Democracy And The Demands Of Justice, Thad Williamson, Martin O'Neill
Property-Owning Democracy And The Demands Of Justice, Thad Williamson, Martin O'Neill
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
John Rawls is arguably the most important political philosopher of the past century. His theory of justice has set the agenda for debate in mainstream political philosophy for the past forty years, and has had an important influence in economics, law, sociology, and other disciplines. However, despite the importance and popularity of Rawls's work, there is (rather surprisingly) no clear picture of what a society that met Rawls's principles of justice would actually look like.