Reason and Justice
SUNY Series in Systematic Philosophy
by Winfield, Richard Dien.
Publication: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press,
1988.
Subject:Justice (Philosophy)
Language: English
eBook ISBN: 9780585090580
ISBN: 9780887067112

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The following work attempts to legitimate the systematic
philosophy of justice and to develop its basic features.
Parts I and II analyze the internal logic and internal dilemmas
of the two traditional approaches to the quests for truth and
justice. In the course of these analyses various thinkers will be
discussed and the labels, ''metaphysical" and "transcendental"
will be applied to the foundationalist strategies exemplified in
certain features of their thought. It should be understood that
no attempt is made to provide a comprehensive interpretation of
these thinkers. Reference is made to them only insofar as it
serves to illustrate the implications of the strategy under
investigation. Similarly, the use of the terms "metaphysical" and
"transcendental" to name the two foundationalist approaches
should not be taken to imply that when these terms have been
employed elsewhere, they merely designate these strategies. Nor
should it be presumed that philosophers who have placed
themselves or been placed by others under one or the other banner
have followed these strategies either exclusively or at all. The
analyses of the "metaphysical" and trancendental" approaches are
intended solely to uncover the logic of two fundamental
strategies for theoretical and practical philosophy, and to lay
bare their internal collapse.
In face of that collapse, Part III seeks to demonstrate how
foundation-free systematic philosophy offers a strategy avoiding
the difficulties of traditional theories and meeting the
challenge of nihilism.
Part IV considers the basic relations of justice as the
resulting systematic philosophy allows them to be conceived. In
the course of this investigation, each of the institutions of
freedom will be examined, so as to provide an outline of the
entire system of justice.