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Applicative Justice : A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice, Hardback Book

Applicative Justice : A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice Hardback

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Naomi Zack pioneers a new theory of justice starting from a correction of current injustices.

While the present justice paradigm in political philosophy and related fields begins from John Rawls’s 1970 Theory of Justice, Zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal, but injustice as a correctable ill.

For a way to describe real injustice and the society in which it occurs, Zack resurrect Arthur Bentley’s key insight that government and law (or political life) is a constant process of contending interest groups throughout society.

Bentley’s main idea allows for a resolution of the contradiction between formal legal equality for U.S. minorities and post-civil rights practical inequality.

Just law and unjust practice co-exist as a fact of political life.

The correction of injustice in reality requires applicative justice, in a comparison between those who are treated unjustly with those who are treated justly, and the design of effective measures to equalize such treatment.

Zack's theory of applicative justice offers a revolutionary reorientation of society's pursuit of justice, seeking to undo injustice in a practical and fully achievable way.

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