Volume 47, Number 8 · May 11, 2000

Philosophy for a Messy World

By Mark Lilla
Justice Is Conflict
by Stuart Hampshire

Princeton University Press, 98 pp., $18.95

Justice is Conflict, like all important works of political theory, was inspired by disappointment. Its author, for many decades a leading moral philosopher, admits this forthrightly in the opening sentences of the preface:



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