A Passion for Justice: Emotions and the Origins of the Social Contract

by Robert Solomon

Overview

Written with eloquence and passionate intelligence . . . [Robert Solomon's] provocative book offers a tool for looking at our actions, our institutions, and the hideously unjust world we inhabit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847680870
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/12/1995
Series:	Camden Fifth Series; 5
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Robert C. Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of numerous books on philosophy and business.

Editorial Reviews

Written with eloquence and passionate intelligence . . . [Robert Solomon's] provocative book offers a tool for looking at our actions, our institutions, and the hideously unjust world we inhabit.” —Publishers Weekly

“. . . a richly developed account of emotions in general and a keen eye for the finely textured character of the moral life.” —Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

“Of all major philosophers, [Robert] Solomon . . . remains the most realistic in offering emotions their central place in how we approach philosophical questions and make sense of the world. . . . In Passion for Justice . . . he offers an American theory of justice-human, clear, shrewd.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Here is a beautifully argued book, which describes in eloquent but fully understandable terms a subject of universal importance . . . This is a thought-provoking treatise that never stops to take the easy way out.” —Newark Star-Ledger

From the Publisher

Here is a beautifully argued book, which describes in eloquent but fully understandable terms a subject of universal importance. .. This is a thought-provoking treatise that never stops to take the easy way out.

Newark Star-Ledger

.. . a richly developed account of emotions in general and a keen eye for the finely textured character of the moral life.

Ethics: An International Journal of Social

Of all major philosophers, [Robert] Solomon. .. remains the most realistic in offering emotions their central place in how we approach philosophical questions and make sense of the world.. .. In Passion for Justice. .. he offers an American theory of justice—human, clear, shrewd.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

. . . a richly developed account of emotions in general and a keen eye for the finely textured character of the moral life.

Ethics: An International Journal of Social

. . . a richly developed account of emotions in general and a keen eye for the finely textured character of the moral life.

Ethics