Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

1-2020

Abstract

In The Right to Justification Rainer Forst tells us that that social context in which humans find themselves is called ‘political’ when it is ‘an order of justification’ – an order which consists of norms and institutions that are to govern their lives together in a justified or justifiable way.² The most important normative concept that applies to this order, he tells us, is that of justice. Justice ‘overarches’ every form of political community, demanding reasons why some have rights, and asking how it is determined who possesses what claims, and how persons stand in relation to one another as authors and addresses of justifications.

Discipline

Ethics and Political Philosophy

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

Toleration, power and the right to justification: Rainer Forst in dialogue

First Page

46

Last Page

68

ISBN

9781526105981

Publisher

Manchester University Press

City or Country

Manchester

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb879.9

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