A new analysis of John Rawls''s theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature.
This book argues that overcoming people''s inability to recognize their own wrongdoing is the most important but regrettably neglected area of the behavioral approach to law.
Makes Mencius'' and Xunzi''s political thought accessible to political theorists, philosophers and scientists with no expertise in classical Chinese or sinology.
Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.
Highlights the emergence of self-knowledge in rabbinic literature, showing how Babylonian rabbis relied on knowledge accessible only to the individual to determine the law.
Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.
A detailed and innovative study of Kant''s engagement with the ideas and methods of previously neglected philosophical figures in eighteenth-century Germany.