Local Justice
T.M. Scanlon
- Morality and Conflict by Stuart Hampshire
Blackwell, 175 pp, £18.50, September 1984, ISBN 0 631 13336 4 - Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer
Blackwell, 343 pp, £15.00, September 1984, ISBN 0 85530 683 1
Has contemporary moral and political philosophy placed too much emphasis on a mistaken search for ‘rational foundations’ for our moral beliefs? A number of recent writers have suggested in various ways that it has. Two stimulating books by Michael Walzer and by Stuart Hampshire make distinctive contributions to this debate. Both are more personal than most books in moral philosophy, and each gives the clear sense of an author working to understand and articulate values about which he cares deeply. Taken together, they offer related but contrasting reasons for turning our attention away from universal principles towards more local values.
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