Social Justice in the Ancient World

K D Irani, Morris Silver (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

1995
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-29144-9 (ISBN)

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This edited collection focuses on the problem of social justice, or, more particularly, how the demand for social justice was articulated and implemented in ancient civilizations, including, from east to west, the Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Israelite, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman. These essays are supplemented by discussions of the functioning of social justice in early and medieval Islam and in the postmedieval Anglo-Saxon world.

The volume contains extended discussions of specific legal regulations, royal edicts, and socioeconomic practices in the various civilizations, and examinations of their social, political, and economic consequences. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, this volume will be of great interest to researchers dealing with the ancient world and the evolution of political philosophy and legal and economic rights.

K. D. IRANI is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City College of the City University of New York. MORRIS SILVER is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at the City College of the City University of New York.

Preface
The Idea of Social Justice: Its Forms and Evolution
The Idea of Social Justice in the Ancient World by K. D. Irani
Social Justice and the Subsistence Economy: From Aristotle to Seventeenth-Century Economics by S. Todd Lowry
The Origins of a Concept of Social Justice by Howard L. Adelson
Articulation of the Idea of Social Justice in the Ancient World
Khremata: Acquisition and Possession in Archaic Greece by Thomas J. Figueira
Images of Justice in Early Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
Justice and the Metaphor of Medicine in Early Greek Thought by Marshall S. Hurwitz
Social Justice in Ancient Iran by Farhang Mehr
Social Justice in Ancient India: In Artha Sãstra by M. G. Prasad
The Practice of Social Justice in the Ancient World, The Ideological Basis for Social Justice/Responsibility in Ancient Egypt by Scott N. Morschauser
Social Justice in Early Islamic Society by Fereydoun Hoveyda
The Idea of Social Justice in Ancient China by Thomas H. C. Lee
Social Justice and Reform in the Ancient World
Social Justice in the Ancient Near East by Raymond Westbrook
Social Reform in Ancient Mesopotamia by Benjamin R. Foster
Prophets and Markets Revisited by Morris Silver
Demands for Land Redistribution and Debt Reduction in the Roman Republic by Richard E. Mitchell
Selected Bibliography
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Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.10.1995
Reihe/Serie	Global Perspectives in History and Politics
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-313-29144-6 / 0313291446
ISBN-13	978-0-313-29144-9 / 9780313291449
Zustand	Neuware