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“The” Priority of Justice:

Elements for a Sociology of Moral Choices
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Peter Lang, 2005 - Social Science - 256 pages
One characteristic of modern society is that individuals no longer share a common or unique conception of good and evil. Social cohesion is maintained by a general agreement to live together which requires impartiality towards everyone and which takes precedence over the different conceptions of the good. This is what the authors call the priority of justice. This book highlights this priority and provides a new approach to moral choices in modern societies. The book focuses on two objectives. Firstly, it examines how and why modern individuals give priority to the right over the good. Opinion polls are the basis of this examination, through the model of a 'fair spectator' giving priority to the reasonable over the rational. Secondly, it analyses what constitutes the principle of justice an individual applies. This book is about resolving conflicts and social justice. It takes account of the plurality of moral values and looks at norms from a fair standpoint, avoiding the famous 'anything goes' and paying attention to what people think.
  

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Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter
9
The Pitfalls of the Homo CEconomicus
18
The Fair Spectator Hypothesis
34
Chapter 2
47
The Explanatory Role of the Moral Dimension
59
The Horizon of the Fair Spectator
74
Two Consequences Pertaining to Economics
93
Demands Peculiar to Unanimous Agreement
122
Chapter 4
145
The Drawbacks of Utilitarian Explanations of Cooperation
155
Communitarianism and the Dead Ends of an Embedded Subject
180
Chapter 5
203
The Choice of the Reasonable
213
Practical Objectivity
223
Two Consequences for a Sociological Analysis
232

Conclusion
99
Chapter 3
107

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About the author (2005)

Michel Forse is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has published several books on sociology.

Maxime Parodi is a sociologist and an Associate Research Fellow at the French National Foundation for Political Sciences (OFCE).

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