The Lesser Good: The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas

ISBN-13: 9780739127612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 130 str.

Wendy C. Hamblet

Opis

The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies of Plato and post-Holocaust phenomenologist, Emmanual Levinas, Hamblet demonstrates that state models of justice strive for the lesser good of ordered continuity of their forms, rather than promoting citizen internalization, of the "higher goods" of ethics humility, self-overcoming, and compassion for the weak and suffering.