Political Justice

»The book strives after nothing less than ›re-examining the philisophical discourse on justice‹ from Classical Greece to the present day. It defends the possibility of scientific criticism of justice and nation against positivism (Kelsen, Hart) and functionalism (Luhmann). Höffe wishes to continue the ›political project of modernity‹, the legitimation of human rights and their guarantee by the state with rational means – but at the same time he wants to ›rehabilitate‹ the classical theory of political justice represented by Plato and Aristotle. And finally he wants to surpass the new American social philosophy with its own game- and action-theoretical means.« This is how Ludwig Siep summarises the philosophical programme of this fundamental and powerful book that now belongs among the classics of political philosophy.