The Justice of Politics: The Foundation of Critical Philosophy of Law and the State

Author: (German) Robert Heffner
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The author of this book, Robert Heffner, was formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland, and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen, Germany, a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, and the editor-in-chief of the German journal "Philosophical Studies." Due to his outstanding achievements in the fields of legal philosophy and legal theory, he enjoys a high reputation in German and the entire Western philosophical community. "The Justice of the Political" is one of Heffner's most important works. It examines theories of law and the state from philosophical and anthropological perspectives, pointing out that the core idea of philosophical legal and state ethics is the justice of the political. The justice of the political is not purely an exchange justice in the economic sense; exchange involves the freedom of people (behavior), "the limitation of freedom is exchanged for the guarantee of freedom, and the surrender of freedom is repaid with the right to freedom." This is indeed a thought-provoking view that is both theoretically valuable and practically meaningful.