George Grant's Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9690024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Gauthier (0000-0002-0964-5548, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-134 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300019521 |
| OpenAlex | W2056263650 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In 1974, George Grant delivered the Josiah Wood lectures at Mount Allison University on the theme English-Speaking Justice . The lectures, first published in 1978, have been republished, and a volume of later essays on somewhat related themes has recently appeared. Grant's work offers an impressionistic but deep challenge to the conception of justice in modern moral thought and practice, a challenge paralleled, in interesting and important ways, by concerns about morality raised in the writings of such persons as Alasdair MacIntyre, Bernard Williams, and, perhaps more surprisingly, J. L. Mackie. In this review, I want briefly to expound Grant's treatment of justice, to exhibit its relationships to other disquieting accounts, and to suggest some of the resources available to contractarian moral theory for lightening what for Grant is a terrifying darkness
Art · Art history · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · George (robot) · Morality · Mount · Political science · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Classics · Free Will and Agency · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal principles and applications · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
|---|