1st Edition

Compromising on Justice

Edited By Fabian Wendt Copyright 2014
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

When we compromise on justice, we accept or acquiesce to an arrangement that we judge to be unjust, or at least not fully just. Such arrangements are often described as constituting a ‘modus vivendi’. What reasons could we have to accept a modus vivendi, thereby compromising on justice? Given the fact of disagreement on justice, this is an important, but rather neglected question in political... Read more

1. Introduction: Compromising on justice  Fabian Wendt

2. Political morality and constitutional settlements  Steven Wall

3. Sustaining democracy: folk epistemology and social conflict  Robert B. Talisse

4. Toleration out of respect?  Sune Lægaard

5. On the possibility of principled moral compromise  Daniel Weinstock

6. Consensus, compromise, justice and legitimacy  Enzo Rossi

7. Peace beyond compromise  Fabian Wendt

Biography

Fabian Wendt is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. From August 2013 to July 2014 he will be a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. His research concerns modus vivendi theories, public reason liberalism, libertarianism, and the concept of freedom.