Giving Everyone His Due… An Introduction to the Theory of Justice
Keywords:
morality, normative ethical theory, ethics of justice, ethics of love, fairness, just warAbstract
This publication contains comments made by participants of the roundtable on A.V. Prokofyev’s recent book “Giving Everyone His Due…: An Introduction to the Theory of Justice” (M.: Alfa-M, 2013). The main problems raised in the comments are following. Is there a possibility or necessity to apply the notion of theory to ethical researches of justice criteria and their practical use? What is the best methodology of normative ethics in whole and the theory of justice in particular? Should we count justice as a central moral value or should it be expelled into the sphere of natural law? Is the confrontation of ethics of love and ethics of justice inevitable, and if so, how deep is it? Are we permitted to use the traditional collocation ‘just war’ discussing the question of the morally justified recourse to war? What relevance the Aristotelian conceptualization of justice has to the contemporary discourse on justice? Are the foundations for a linkage of justice and fairness sufficiently strong?
