April 08, 2011

Books

All Too Alienable

JusticeRights and WrongsNicholas Wolterstorff Princeton University Press, $24.95, 416 pp.

Gary A. Anderson

In the 1970s the philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff witnessed first-hand what happens when a people tries to replace justice with goodwill. In order to justify their position, the Afrikaners insisted that they were “a charitable people” and their policies would eventually work toward the common good. Here Wolterstorff saw, “as never before, the good overwhelming the just (...)


 

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