Philip Crowe

As any parent or teacher will know, the cry of ‘that’s not fair’ is common to every home and school. The inference is that for whatever reason, the appeal for fairness and justice is deeply rooted in each one of us.

But where does our ‘sense' of justice come from? And what are the implications for us as individuals, as communities, as nations and as part of the international order. Such are the questions posed here.

By reference to early Jewish and Christian thought, Philip Crowe examines whether there is any such thing as absolute justice and whether objective moral laws can apply.… (mer)