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Two pictures of injustice: Rainer Forst and the aporia of discursive deontology

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Abstract

Rainer Forst's work puts forward an ambitious and original critical theory of justice. It combines elements from the work of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas's discourse ethics, and Kant's moral theory, together with an attempt to redefine the meaning of social oppression in the spirit of Frankfurt School critical theory. Its core concept, “the right to justification,” seeks to account simultaneously for the deontological basis of social justice as a matter of human dignity
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)432-445
Number of pages14
JournalConstellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory
Volume25
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

  • Citizens
  • Critical theory
  • Discourse
  • Equity
  • Ethics
  • Forst, Rainer
  • Frankfurt School
  • Human dignity
  • Injustice
  • Oppression
  • Professional ethics
  • Rawls, John
  • Social justice

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