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7 - Decent Society, Memory, and Compromise

from Part II - From Thinking Globally to Global Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2018

Jean-Marc Coicaud
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Lynette E. Sieger
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Avishai Margalit argues in his chapter that it is more urgent and more important to prevent injustice than to promote justice. From his point of view, refraining from evil takes precedence over pursuing the good. As a way to illustrate this approach of questions of justice, both at the national and international levels, Margalit gives a number of examples taken from history.

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Print publication year: 2019

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