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
Citation
KUKATHAS, Chandran. (2020). Let’s get radical: Extending the reach of Baylean (and Forstian) toleration. In Toleration, power and the right to justification: Rainer Forst in dialogue (pp. 46-68). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3874
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb879.9