Ethics and Social JusticeHoward E. Kiefer, Milton K. Munitz State University of New York Press, 1970 M06 30 - 335 pages Hailed by philosopher Sidney Hook as "a landmark in the history of American philosophy," the International Philosophy Year in 1967-68 brought seventy of the Western world's most distinguished philosophers to the State University College at Brockport for a series of fourteen conferences devoted to different areas of philosophic inquiry. Contemporary Philosophic Thought, which records the original papers of these conferences in four volumes, stands not only as a major contribution to philosophy, but also as a wide survey of the range of conceptual problems that philosophers are working to solve. Vol. 1, Language, Belief, and Metaphysics, is addressed to problems of logic and language. Contributors discuss the nature of belief and present theories on the concept of the world and on identity through time. Vol. 2, Mind, Science, and History, focuses on the mind and related issues. Scientists and historians join philosophers in considering problems that bear upon their disciplines. Vol. 3, Perspectives in Education, Religion, and the Arts, discusses philosophy as related to cultural change, the changing aims of education, and religion. The philosophy of art is explored from varying viewpoints of genre, style, poetics, aesthetics, rhetoric, and communication. Vol. 4, Ethics and Social Justice, takes up moral and legal issues with essays on human rights and on philosophy as applied to practice. |
Contents
A Plea for Socrates Heritage A Response | 16 |
The Philosophy of Practice and Some Practices of Philosophers | 45 |
In Defense of Justice A Response | 75 |
Value and Fact | 93 |
The Bounds of Morality | 122 |
Universalizability and Justice | 142 |
Interests Role Reversal Universalizability and the Principle | 164 |
Comments on the Unity of Law Doctrine A Response | 200 |
A Theory of Civil Disobedience | 225 |
Philosophy Law and Civil Disobedience | 240 |
Sociology and the Philosophy of Human Rights | 282 |
Philosophy and History in the Development of Human Rights | 300 |
Is the Declaration of Human Rights a Western Concept? | 323 |
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