Justice and law
By: by María José Falcón y Tella
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9789004271692; 9789004271708
Subjects: Administration of Justice; Philosophy; Jurisprudence; Law
Work titles: Justicia como mérito
Description: In Justice and Law María José Falcón y Tella, offers an account of classical and modern theories of justice, and some of the principal themes relating to justice -punishment, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, just war, and tolerance.
Notes: "Translation into English from La justicia como mérito, Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2014."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Justice in the bible; title: Plato's The Republic; title: Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics; title: Justice in Islamic law; title: Saint Thomas Aquinas' summa theologica; title: Confucius in china; title: The conquest of America; title: Machiavelli: "the end justifies the means"; title: Jiirgen Habermas' theory of diskursethik; title: John Rawls' Justice as fairness; title: Ronald Dworkin's Taking rights seriously; title: Robert N Ozick's Anarchy, state, and utopia; title: Justice as "efficiency"; title: Justice and "desert"; title: Precedents; title: Wojciech sadurski; title: Marx's justice as a "critique"; title: Alasdair macintyre; title: "Feminist" justice.