Bilder der Gerechtigkeit
Zum Verständnis der ersten Tugend sozialer Institutionen
29 November 2010, 7.30pm
Frankfurter Rundschau / Depot Sachsenhausen / Karl-Gerold-Platz 1 / Frankfurt am Main
Rainer Forst develops his approach to justice in contrast to the popular maxim ‘to each his own’. In doing so he emphasises four aspects. First, the issue of production: Which goods should be produced and how should their production be organised? Second, the political dimension of justice: Who determines the structures of production and distribution? Third, the participation necessary for this: claims to goods and social positions must be established by discursive means in procedures of justification. Fourth, cases in which scarcity of goods is the result of mechanisms of injustice are often not sufficiently distinguished from those where, for example, it is caused by natural disasters. In this way acts of moral solidarity can be mistaken for acts of justice. Thus it must be concluded that justice is primarily concerned with intersubjective relations and structures and not with providing goods. Only through a careful consideration of the first question of justice – the justifiability of social relations and of how the ‘power of justification’ is distributed in the political domain – is a critical conception of justice possible.
The speaker
Rainer Forst is the Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’ at the Goethe University Frankfurt and Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy.
Moderator: Dr. Christian Schlüter (FR)
Lecture: click here (pdf)
Die Co-Sprecherin des Forschungszentrums "Normative Ordnungen" Prof. Nicole Deitelhoff erhält eine LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur des Landes Hessen. Wir freuen uns, dass diese Förderung ihre Forschungen zur Produktivität von Konflikten auch weiterhin fruchtbar machen wird. Weitere Informationen: 
