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This book presents surveys of significant trends in contemporary philosophy. Contributing authors explore themes relating to justice including natural rights, equality, freedom, democracy, morality and cultural traditions. Key movements and thinkers are considered, ranging from ancient Greek philosophy, Roman and Christian traditions to the development of Muslim law, Enlightenment perspectives and beyond.

Authors discuss important works, including those of Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Mary Wollstonecraft. Readers are also invited to examine Hegel and the foundation of right, Karl Marx as a utopian socialist and the works of Paul Ricoeur, amongst the wealth of perspectives presented in this book.

Through these chapters, readers are able to explore the relationship of the state to justice and consider the rights of the individual and the role of law. Contributions presented here discuss concepts including Sharia law, freedom in the community and Libertarian Anarchism. Readers may follow accounts of justice in the Scottish Enlightenment and consider fairness, social justice and the concept of injustice.

The surveys presented here show different approaches and a variety of interpretations. Each contribution has its own bibliography.

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Preface ; Guttorm Fl›istad.- Introduction; Guttorm Fl›istad.- La justice à la lumière des Lois ; Bertrand Saint-Sernin.- Justice and Moderation in the State: Aristotle and Beyond; Eleni Leontsini.- Jean Bodin - The Modern State Comes into Being; Thomas Krogh.- Samuel Pufendorf - Natural Law, Moral Entities and the Civil Foundation of Morality; Thor Inge R›rvik.- Hugo Grotius - Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law; Andreas Harald Aure.- Baruch Spinoza: Democracy and Freedom of Speech; Paola De Cuzzani.- Ibn Khaldun: Law and Justice in the Science of Civilisation; Lars Gule.- Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of Islamic Law; Knut S. Vik›r.- John Locke - Libertarian Anarchism; Helga Varden.- Accounts of Justice in the Scottish Enlightenment; Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini.- Rousseau - Equality and Freedom in the Community; Ellen Krefting.- Immanuel Kant - Justice as Freedom; Helga Varden.- Hegel and the Foundation of Right; Terje Stefan Sparby.- Mary Wollstonecraft - The Call for a Revolution of Female Manners; Kjersti Fj›rtoft.- Karl Marx - a Utopian Socialist?; J›rgen Pedersen.- Humanity in Times of Crisis Hannah Arendt´s Political Existentialism; Odin Lysaker.- John Rawls´ Theory of Justice as Fairness; Andreas Follesdal.- Love and Justice in Ricoeur; Peter Kemp.- Justice sociale, justice globale; Dominique Terré.- Seeing Injustice; Gülriz Uygur.- Justices : entre les impossibilités et la sagesse tragique; Jean-Godefroy Bidima.

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