Abstract

The collection of essays gathered here under the topic of justice is a welcome text both for scholars in general and for those who were hoping for a follow up to Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another. The essays assembled in The Just are at once essential readings for anyone concerned with the link between ethics, law, and politics and perfect complements to the seventh, eighth, and ninth studies contained in Oneself as Another. However, knowledge of Ricoeur’s earlier writings is not a prerequisite for understanding the content of these essays since he retains the style of a moderator by engaging the most powerful authors on justice available: Aristotle, Kant, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, to name just a few.