Communitarian Ethics and Legal Justification

Abstract

In the last decade or so there has been an important revival of interest in Aristotle's Ethics. The revival is chiefly associated with Alasdair MacIntyre's work, After Virtue, but it can be traced to Rawls' provocative work, A Theory ofJustice, in which he'raised focus anew, and with intense concentratiqn, on the age-old issue of the principles of justice. Of course in a larger historical context, the interest in Aristotlian ethics goes back to Aristotle himself, because the author had important things to say on the subject.