JUSTICIA PARA TODOS? PERSPECTIVAS FILOSÓFICAS

RODRÍGUEZ-ARIAS, DAVID.

ISBN 10: 8416032823 / ISBN 13: 9788416032822

Published by PLAZA Y VALDÉS, MADRID, 2016

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La justicia es un ideal político y ético difícil de definir. Desde Platón, los filósofos se han preocupado por comprender los correlatos de la justicia; la equidad, la igualdad, la paridad o el respeto de los derechos; y sus enemigos; la discriminación, la exclusión, la explotación. Las propuestas contemporáneas de la idea de justicia siguen sin generar unanimidad. Los catorce capítulos breves que contiene este libro son, o bien un acercamiento teórico al modo de concebir y representar la justicia, o bien una reflexión sobre ámbitos específicos de la praxis actual en los que la justicia se ve comprometida. Sirven de panorámica sobre algunos de los debates históricos y contemporáneos más relevantes en torno a la justicia: desde sus aspectos abstractos a su concreción en contextos específicos; desde la filosofía política a la ética aplicada. Este compendio de perspectivas sobre la justicia ofrece la oportunidad de explorar nuevas visiones sobre el problema y de descubrir puntos de encuentro, controversia y enriquecimiento. La variedad de visiones y modos de aproximarse e interpretar la justicia en esta colección de ensayos nos recuerda que, a pesar de ser un tema clásico para la filosofía, necesita ser repensado y actualizado.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: JUSTICIA PARA TODOS? PERSPECTIVAS FILOSÓFICAS
• Publisher: PLAZA Y VALDÉS, MADRID
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 8416032823
• ISBN 13: 9788416032822
• Binding: Rústica
• Edition: 01.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo
• Book Type: LIBRO
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humanidades_IBIC

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Synopsis

Justice is a political and ethical idea that is difficult to define. Since Plato, philosophers have been preoccupied with trying to understand the correlations between justice, equality, or respect for the law and discrimination, exclusion, and exploitation. Several contemporary proposals for understanding justice follow in this text, but they are far from unanimous. The fourteen brief chapters in this book either follow a theoretical approach to conceiving of and representing justice, or reflect on specific fields in the practice of which justice is being undermined. The essays provide a sweeping view of some of the most relevant historical and contemporary debates around justice: from the abstract to the specific and materialized, from political philosophy to applied ethics. This summary of perspectives about justice offers the opportunity to explore new views about the problem and to discover new points of agreement, controversy, and enrichment. The variety of views and ways of approximating and interpreting justice in this collection reminds us that, despite being a classical theme of philosophy, justice needs to be reviewed and updated.

About the Author

Catherine Heeney is a professor in the department of science, technology, and innovation at the University of Edinburgh. For many years she has been interested in the integration of ethical analysis and empirical work. She has been a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy with the CSIC in Madrid and at the Ethox Centre at Oxford University. She has published about the theme of the ethics of biomedical research in magazines such as The Information Society and Nature Genetics.