Justice: A matter of conviction or interpretation?

Dworkin;justice;interpretation;hermeneutics;conviction;Gadamer;law;politics;philosophy

Kerr, Christopher David ; Spencer, Vicki

University of Otago

关键词: Dworkin;    justice;    interpretation;    hermeneutics;    conviction;    Gadamer;    law;    politics;    philosophy;   

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美国|英语

来源: Otago University Research Archive

【 摘 要 】

Justice is a concept that, when fulfilled, has the power to make us cry with happiness and, when transgressed, to sob with sadness. This dissertation is an attempt to understand whether justice is the subject for personal theories grounded in conviction or collective theories of societies and humanity grounded in interpretation. The answer, it argues, is both. To do so, the dissertation first elucidates Ronald Dworkin;;s interpretive theory of constructive interpretation and examines the ways in which it is similar to, and different from, hermeneutic theories of understanding. The dissertation then examines how Dworkin applies constructive interpretation to the concept of