Presents surveys in the field of philosophy, showing different approaches and interpretations to justice

Traces key movements and thinkers through the ages, from ancient Greece through Christian and Muslim thought, to the Enlightenment and beyond

Explores themes relating to justice including natural rights, equality, freedom, democracy, morality and cultural traditions

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Preface ; Guttorm Fløistad.- Introduction; Guttorm Fløistad.- La justice à la lumière des Lois ; Bertrand Saint-Sernin.- Justice and Moderation in the State: Aristotle and Beyond; Eleni Leontsini.- Jean Bodin - The Modern State Comes into Being; Thomas Krogh.- Samuel Pufendorf - Natural Law, Moral Entities and the Civil Foundation of Morality; Thor Inge Rørvik.- Hugo Grotius - Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law; Andreas Harald Aure.- Baruch Spinoza: Democracy and Freedom of Speech; Paola De Cuzzani.- Ibn Khaldun: Law and Justice in the Science of Civilisation; Lars Gule.- Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of Islamic Law; Knut S. Vikør.- John Locke - Libertarian Anarchism; Helga Varden.- Accounts of Justice in the Scottish Enlightenment; Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini.- Rousseau - Equality and Freedom in the Community; Ellen Krefting.- Immanuel Kant - Justice as Freedom; Helga Varden.- Hegel and the Foundation of Right; Terje Stefan Sparby.- Mary Wollstonecraft - The Call for a Revolution of Female Manners; Kjersti Fjørtoft.- Karl Marx - a Utopian Socialist?; Jørgen Pedersen.- Humanity in Times of Crisis Hannah Arendt's Political Existentialism; Odin Lysaker.- John Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness; Andreas Follesdal.- Love and Justice in Ricœur; Peter Kemp.- Justice sociale, justice globale; Dominique Terré.- Seeing Injustice; Gülriz Uygur.- Justices : entre les impossibilités et la sagesse tragique; Jean-Godefroy Bidima.