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Justice Is Conflict

Stuart Hampshire

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English
Princeton University Pres
16 October 2001
"This book, which inaugurates the Princeton Monographs in Philosophy series, starts from Plato's analogy in the Republic between conflict in the soul and conflict in the city. Plato's solution required reason to impose agreement and harmony on the warring passions, and this search for harmony and agreement constitutes the main tradition in political philosophy up to and including contemporary liberal theory. Hampshire undermines this tradition by developing a distinction between justice in procedures, which demands that both sides in a conflict should be heard, and justice in matters of substance, which will always be disputed. Rationality in private thinking consists in adversary reasoning, and so it does in public affairs. Moral conflict is eternal, and institutionalized argument is its only universally acceptable restraint and the only alternative to tyranny. In the chapter ""Against Monotheism,"" Hampshire argues that monotheistic beliefs are only with difficulty made compatible with pluralism in ethics.

In ""Conflict and Conflict Resolution,"" he argues that socialism, seen as the proposal of extended political solutions for natural human ills, is still a relevant, yet strongly contested, ideal."
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Imprint:   Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 191mm,  Width: 114mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   113g
ISBN:   9780691089744
ISBN 10:   0691089744
Series:   Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
Pages:   120
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface ix Chapter I The Soul and the City 1 Chapter II Against Monotheism 49 Chapter III Conflict and Conflict Resolution 77

Stuart Hampshire was a Fellow of All Souls College. Oxford, and has held professorships in philosophy at Princeton and Stanford Universities. He is a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His numerous works include Spinoza: Thought and Action; Morality and Conflict: Innocence and Expenence: and Freedom of the Individual (Princeton)

Reviews for Justice Is Conflict

This book deserves a wide attentive readership. . . . Hampshire . . . believes that the paradigm of deliberative reason lies in public forums like the courts rather than individual delibertation, which has dominated recent philosophical treatments of the subject. . . . [He] denies reason can show some particular conception of justice to be best. --Glen Newey, Times Literary Supplement This elegant small volume . . . offers a novel account of how to reason about the universal and particular in politics by examining the tensions between them in the workings of the human mind. --Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books


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