Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: Justice is related to goodness, rather than being independent of it. This idea connects the book "Limitations" with the works of others who are widely recognized as "communitarian critics" of liberalism. However, the claim that justice is related to goodness has two versions, and only one of them is the "communitarian" view in the usual sense. Much of the confusion in the liberal-communitarian debate stems from people's failure to distinguish between these two versions. This book is a classic in modern Western political science. It discusses from perspectives such as moral subjects, distribution principles, and social contracts, exposing the partiality of the "political liberalism" doctrine represented by Rawls and, based on this, proposes the idea that "justice is inherent in goodness." The book is well-structured, meticulously argued, and offers profound insights, making it one of the few influential works challenging Rawls' theory in the Western academic world. It is renowned alongside Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" and MacIntyre's "After Virtue" as a seminal work.