此书摘本创建于：2017-01-25
The Faces of Injustice
Ponders such questions as: How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? …… [ 展开全部 ]
- 作者：Judith N. Shklar
- 出版社：Yale University Press
- 定价：USD 19.50
- ISBN：9780300056709
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The possibility of such preventive civic activity is by far greater in a free society than in fear-ridden and authoritarian ones, so I shall treat it as an aspect of the obligation of citizens of constitutional democracies only., And, indeed, although I shall draw exampĮes from many places and times, this whole book is really about America, not because it łs the most unjust society by any means, but because I know it best and because one might as well point one's finger at one's own country
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The most obvious example is pigmentation, which is certainly natural, but nothing else about being dark-skinned in America is. Black in America is a social, not a natural condition. And at various times some have regarded dark skin as a misfortune, some always knew it to be an injustice, and not a few treated it as both. Withthat in mind, it would seem that the line between human and nonhuman causes may not matter very much.
