Towards an Internormative Hermeneutics for Social Justice : Principles of Justice and Recognition in John Rawls and Axel Honneth

Idika, Christiana Ngozi Calice Matris

ISBN 10: 363173798X / ISBN 13: 9783631737989

Published by Peter Lang, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Towards an Internormative Hermeneutics for Social Justice : Principles of Justice and Recognition in John Rawls and Axel Honneth
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 363173798X
• ISBN 13: 9783631737989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The author discusses to what extent a generally binding norm of social justice can be established in a modern, plural society. The book presents the difficulty associated with the preservation of plurality of different life forms. It also considers the plurality of the principles of social justice so as not to fall back to prioritization and the absolutization of their claims. This book argues for a more constructive way to search for criteria for complementarity, referring methodologically to Rawls’ and Honneth’s theories of justice. The author contents that the principles of social justice and their sources of normativity are plural.

About the Author

Christiana Ngozi Calice Matris Idika received her PhD in Philosophy from the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She is a member of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy and a researcher at the Institute for Mission und Weltkirche at the Theologisch-Philosophische Hochschule Sankt Georgen Frankfurt am Main, Germany.