{"product_id":"the-two-faces-of-justice-9780674021600","title":"The Two Faces of Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eJustice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favorable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly fail to. Even if we appear to have overcome the difficulty, our reluctance often betrays itself in certain moral emotions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Jiwei Ci explores the dual nature of justice, in an attempt to make unitary sense of key features of justice reflected in its close relation to resentment, punishment, and forgiveness. Rather than pursue a search for normative principles, he probes the human psychology of justice to understand what motivates moral agents who seek to behave justly, and why their desire to be just is as precarious as it is uplifting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wide-ranging treatment of enduring questions, \u003ci\u003eThe Two Faces of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e can also be read as a remarkably discerning contribution to the Western discourse on justice relaunched in our time by John Rawls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCI, Jiwei:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jiwei Ci is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMoral China in the Age of Reform\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Two Faces of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard), and \u003ci\u003eDialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism\u003c\/i\u003e. He has held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Humanities Center, and the Stanford Humanities Center.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844871131410,"sku":"9780674021600","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24c9d63d-a4b1-49ae-9c1f-329347bb64cf.jpg?v=1737335310","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-two-faces-of-justice-9780674021600","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}