Order and Justice in 'The anarchical society

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ID3736026
AutoresIan Harris (0000-0003-2037-9284, autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume69
Fascículo4
Páginas725-741
Data de publicação1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2620594
OpenAlexW2325101240
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17

This article examines how far the late Hedley Bull can be said to have addressed successfully the difficulties of combining a view of international morality with an account of international society. It suggests that Bull's category of Order has dual status, as both fact and value, but that ‘ The anarchical society’, which is predominantly phenomenological in approach, fails to locate Order in a philosophically satisfactory scheme of values and so is somewhat ambiguous in its treatment of Justice. In particular, it is at least arguable that in some respects Justice is part of the constitution of Order, so that the two cannot be contrasted straightforwardly. One possible explanation of Bull's difficulty with values may lie with his rather curious view of the history of international theory, which tends to omit ethics

Constitution · Dual (grammatical number) · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Morality · Order (exchange) · Political science · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought