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What is Justice : Rights and Wrongs about?

"This book is an attempt to speak up for the wronged of the world . . . . My speaking up for the wrong of the world takes the form, in this book, of doing what I can to undermine those frameworks of conviction that prevent us from acknowledging that the other comes before us bearing a claim on us, and of offering an alternative framework, one that opens up to such acknowledgements" (ix). According to Nicholas Wolterstorff's highly acclaimed and landmark book Justice: Rights and Wrongs (comparisons have been made to John Rawls's Theory of Justice), any political framework not based upon "inherent human rights," that is, "normative social relationships . . . . in the form of the other bearing a legitimate claim on me as to how I treat her" (4) cannot do justice to the wronged of the world--any other framework must be, in a word, unjust. Secondly, this exclusively just political framework can only be grounded in theistic belief, both theoretically and practically, for human beings have the right not to be wronged only because they are all equally loved by God--and God Himself has the right to be obeyed, loved, and not wronged. If contemporary academics, politicians, and talking he

Who reads Justice : Rights and Wrongs?

Author

Nicholas Wolterstorff; Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology Nicholas Wolterstorff

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691146300

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Religion, Christian