A Brief History of Justice

<i>A Brief History of</i> <i>Justice</i> traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice. <ul type=”disc”> <li>An accessible introduction to the history of ideas about justice </li> <li>Shows how complex ideas are anchored in ordinary intuitions about justice </li> <li>Traces the emergence of the idea of social justice </li> <li>Identifies connections as well as differences between distributive and corrective justice </li> <li>Offers accessible, concise introductions to the thought of several leading figures and schools of thought in the history of philosophy </li> </ul>