Justice As Enlightenment And Morality

Book Code: 1111018184634

Ghazala Rizvi

ABOUT THE BOOK

‘Is justice’ conceived as a quality of exhibiting moral excellence or stand for the morally correct state of persons and affairs?What is the sense of being just or unjust? Why should I be just? What ought I to do or not to do for my enlightenment or my ignorance? Is hatred can be fight with compassion or discrimination with recognition and respect? How can we remove the chain of sufferings and reaches at the stage of enlightenment? How far the path of enlightenment and morality ensures justice? In order to address these questions, the book- Justice as Enlightenment and Morality focuses on the ethical dimension of justice which begins and ends with human being whereby a ‘just man’ connotes not only that he/she ought to be good in the social sense, but most importantly be good to his/her self, which is an ‘enlighten and moral awakening’ and sense of ‘discipline the mind and soul’, so that he/she can achieve the ultimate happiness or eudaimonia in a multi-cultural pluralistic society like India.    

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Ghazala Rizvi is ICSSR Post Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was born in district Gopalganj, Bihar. She was educated from Patna and then moved to Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh from where she has done her B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science with Philosophy and Geography and M.A. in Philosophy. She has done her B.Ed from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. She obtained her M.Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
She has cleared University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC- NET) for Assistant Professor and Junior Research Fellowship (UGC- JRF) both. She had been awarded Maulana Azad National Fellowship (UGC- MANF) by University Grants Commission, New Delhi. She has also awarded Indian Council of Philosophical Research Junior Research Fellowship (ICPR-JRF), New Delhi. Recently she has been awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship by Indian Council Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi to work on the title “Gender Justice and Capability: A Social and Political Appraisal”.
She has to her credit; more than fifteen research articles published in UGC referred Journals and highly standard academic journals in India and abroad. Besides she has presented papers in several national and internal seminars. Her areas of specialization are Social and Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Western and Indian Philosophy, Aesthetics, Existentialism and Philosophy of Law. She has taught philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Lady Shri Ram College for Women and Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, University of Delhi, New Delhi.

CONTENT

Introduction .............................................................................................. 7
Preface .................................................................................................... 11
1. Status of Justice in the Early Enlightenment Rationality .......................... 19
2. Kant on Enlightenment Rationality and Morality ................................... 57
3. Kant on Justice .................................................................................. 93
Conclusion ........................................................................................... 127
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 143
Index ……………………………………………………….……….151