A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity

The article deals with an issue of a critical concept of injustice. It concentrates on injustice by focusing on three fundamental elements of Critical theory of society: critique, explanation, and normativity. Firstly, it clarifies the need for critical social criticism to have an internal character...

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Main Author: Marek Hrubec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2014-06-01
Series:Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/33286
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spelling doaj-4c0a3adaf86e4b7c93b98b4fed7551772021-02-02T08:41:42ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaEthic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy1677-29542014-06-01131507310.5007/1677-2954.2014v13n1p5021876A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and NormativityMarek Hrubec0Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Charles University in Prague, Czech RepublicThe article deals with an issue of a critical concept of injustice. It concentrates on injustice by focusing on three fundamental elements of Critical theory of society: critique, explanation, and normativity. Firstly, it clarifies the need for critical social criticism to have an internal character. Secondly, it concentrates on relations between individual elements of the above-mentioned trichotomy, and stresses the consequences of such an analysis for a Critical social theory. It shows that only an articulation of all three elements in their mutual constitutive relations will enable to work out a critical concept of in/justice.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/33286injusticejusticecritical theorycritiqueexplanationnormativity
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Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
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title A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity
title_short A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity
title_full A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity
title_fullStr A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity
title_full_unstemmed A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity
title_sort critical concept of injustice: trichotomy critique, explanation, and normativity
publisher Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
series Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
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publishDate 2014-06-01
description The article deals with an issue of a critical concept of injustice. It concentrates on injustice by focusing on three fundamental elements of Critical theory of society: critique, explanation, and normativity. Firstly, it clarifies the need for critical social criticism to have an internal character. Secondly, it concentrates on relations between individual elements of the above-mentioned trichotomy, and stresses the consequences of such an analysis for a Critical social theory. It shows that only an articulation of all three elements in their mutual constitutive relations will enable to work out a critical concept of in/justice.
topic injustice
justice
critical theory
critique
explanation
normativity
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