The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Publisher: Free Press
Published: October 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780684864624
Subjects: Social Conflict; Social justice; Politics/International Relations; Social Philosophy; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Social History; Public Policy - General; History & Theory - General; Current Events / General; Ethics & moral philosophy; Human rights; USA; Equality; American; Justice
First sentence: One of the few subjects on which we all seem to agree is the need for justice.
Description: "This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies.

Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom - amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution."--BOOK JACKET.