Brief History of Justice

David Johnston is Professor of Political Science and formerly Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. His books include The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation (1986), The Idea of a Liberal Theory (1994), Leviathan: A Norton Critical Edition (ed. with Richard Flathman, 1997), and Equality (ed., 2000).

• Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1Prologue: From the Standard Model to a Sense of Justice 71 The Terrain of Justice 152 Teleology and Tutelage in Plato's Republic 383 Aristotle's Theory of Justice 634 From Nature to Artifice: Aristotle to Hobbes 895 The Emergence of Utility 1166 Kant’s Theory of Justice 1427 The Idea of Social Justice 1678 The Theory of Justice as Fairness 196Epilogue: From Social Justice to Global Justice? 223Glossary of Names 233Source Notes 239Index 257

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