Law · Boston College
What is Justice? Introduces students to enduring questions of legal practice and thought. What is justice? What are the main conceptions of justice? How did the idea of justice change over time? Is there a logic or point to the evolution of the idea of justice? How does history, reason, and democracy influence justice? Are the good, the right, the virtuous, the lawful, and the just the same? If not, what do you think about their relationships? What role do lawyers and their special way of thinking play in relation to justice? This course addresses these questions by retrieving their formulatio
