Description
First published in 1945, in the wake of potent suffering, injustice, and the social and international upheaval of World War II, Justice and Social Order is Emil Brunner’s impassioned assessment of Protestant Christianity’s irresoluteness on various social issues, including the social order, politics, law, and international law. Brunner argues that the totalitarian State was the inevitable result of the slow disintegration and dissolution of the idea of justice in the Western World, which left Western humanity in its own wreckage in the twentieth century.
Part one, ‘Principles’, presents the principles of justice, such as law, equality, and justice, proceeding with a description of the essential nature of these principles and where justice lies with the sphere of ethics. In the second part, ‘Practice’, Brunner explains the application of the principles described in part one to the practice of justice. In Justice and Social Order, Brunner elucidates his belief that it is the duty of theologians, philosophers, and jurists to comprehend and clarify the idea of justice to reconstruct just institutions and cure humanity’s ‘chronic disease’: the absence of the intention of justice.
About the Author
Emil Brunner (1889-1966) was one of the leading theologians of the twentieth century, and helped pave the course of modern Protestant theology. He was Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the University of Zürich and lectured around the world. His extensive writings published by James Clarke & Co. include Dogmatics and The Misunderstanding of the Church.
Contents
Foreword
Translator’s Note
1. Introduction: The Disintegration Of The Western Idea Of Justice
Part One
Principles
2. What Is Meant?
3. The Place Of Justice In Th e Sphere Of Ethics
4. Justice And Law
5. Justice And Equality
6. The Ground Of Equality
7. The Ground Of Inequality
8. The Divine Law Of Justice
9. The Equality Of Men. The Right To Freedom
10. The Inequality Of Men And The Rights Of The Community
11. Individualism And Collectivism
12. Justice And The Law Of Nature
13. Static And Dynamic Justice. Historical Relativity
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14. Justice And The Revelation Of Scripture 99
(1) The New Testament
(2) The Old Testament
(3) The Ten Commandments In Particular
15. Justice And Love
Part Two
Practice
Foreword To Part Two
16. Justice In The Political Order
17. Justice In The Family Order
(1) Justice In Marriage
(2) The Family
18. Justice In The Economic Order
(1) The Justice Of Property
(2) Just Interest
(3) The Just Price
(4) Just Wages
(5) The Just Distribution Of Economic Power
(6) Capitalism And Communism
(7) The Just Economic Order. The Problem
Of Economic Planning
19. The Mass Man And The Just Social Order
20. Justice In The Political Order
(1) The Four Stages Of Political Justice
(2) The Injustice Of The Totalitarian State
(3) Just Law
(4) Just Power
(5) Just Punishment
21. Justice In The International Order
(1) The Order Of Peace
(2) The Law. International Law
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(3) Just International Law
(4) The Just Distribution Of Power
(5) Extra- and Supra- State Possibilities
Conclusion. Limits
Notes
