Reflections on the just

This book includes bibliographical references and an index.

From the moral to the ethical and to ethics -- Justice and truth -- Autonomy and vulnerability -- The paradox of authority -- The paradigm of translation -- Otfried Höffe's Principes du droit -- The fundamental categories in Max Weber's sociology -- Bouretz on Weber -- Antoine Garapon's Le gardien des promesses -- The fundamental and the historical: notes on Charles Taylor's Sources of the self -- The difference between the normal and the pathological as a source of respect -- The three levels of medical judgment -- Decision making in medical and judicial judgments -- Justice and vengeance -- The universal and the historical.