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Lesser Good: The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas

Lesser Good: The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0739127616
ISBN13: 9780739127612
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 16 2009
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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