The justice of politics

Author: (German) Robert Heffner
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The author of this book, Otfried H?ffe, was formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, 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 world. "The Justification of the Political" is one of H?ffe's most important works. It examines 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 political justification. The political justification is not purely an economic exchange justice; the 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.