Boost up and merge with. Order ethics in the light of recent developments in justice theory

Abstract

Something is going on in the state of justice theory. Slowly but surely, a novel paradigm emerges. When elaborated further, this paradigm-elsewhere I call it the pragmatist paradigm (Festl in Gerechtigkeit als historischer Experimentalismus. Gerechtigkeitstheorie nach der pragmatistischen Wende der Erkenntnistheorie. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz, 2015)-could, before long, challenge the approaches to justice that are derived from the epochal work of Rawls (A Theory of Justice. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1971/1999).