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

Author: (German) Heffter / Pang Xuequan / Li Zhanglin
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: ★16K paperback, published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House ★Authors are experts in their respective fields, with strong professionalism and extensive knowledge ★Systematically organizes and explores the development of social civilization from the perspective of the overall process of Western civilization
The author Otfried Heffter was formerly a philosophy professor at Freiburg University in Switzerland and is currently a philosophy professor at Tübingen University in Germany, a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, and the editor-in-chief of the German journal Philosophische Studien. 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 Politics is one of Heffter's most important works, which studies legal and state theory from the perspectives of philosophy and anthropology, pointing out that the core idea of philosophical legal and state ethics is the justice of politics. The justice of politics is not purely an exchange justice in the economic sense; exchange involves the freedom of people (behavior), "freedom is secured through the limitation 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.