Justice As Impartiality: A Treatise on Social Justice Volume II
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Almost every country today contains adherents of different religions and different secular conceptions of the good life. Is there any alternative to a power struggle among them, leading most probably to either civil war or repression? In this important new work of political philosophy, Brian Barry argues that justice as impartiality offers a solution. The follow-up to his prize-winning book Theories of Justice, it offers a contemporary restatement of the Enlightenment idea that certain basic principles can validly claim the allegiance of every reasonable human being.
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- Authors
- Barry, B.
- Corresponding author
- Barry, Brian
- ORCID
- Barry, Brian
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 1995-02-23
- OpenAlex
- W4388091211
- Cited by
- 1,026
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 48 · 2016: 39 · 2015: 38 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 51
- FWCI
- 45.12
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Keywords
- justice as impartiality, impartial spectator, Enlightenment, religious pluralism, political philosophy, Brian Barry, theory of justice, civil war, repression
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