Publication details
Spravedlnost mezi utopií a realitou
| Title in English | Justice between Utopia and Reality |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Právník |
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| Web | Repozitář MU |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | utopia; human nature; socialism; capitalism; justice; ideal theory; communist regime |
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| Description | This article deals with the significance of value ideals for political and legal thinking.Value ideals are necessary ingredients of any normative thinking but it is not self-evident what role (if any) we should assign to ideals so high that they are infeasible. People have tendency to selfish behaviour (at least in part) due to their human nature but this empirical fact does not diminish the moral wrongness of selfish behaviour. Even if human nature was unchangeable, it would be possible and right to criticize selfish behaviour from a moral point of view. In this sense, even an unachievable ideal can become a standard of moral rightness. However, we need to address practical problems of our real world. If a utopian vision abstracts away from facts about the sources of these problems then it cannot provide us useful guidelines for solving them |
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