A politikai igazságosságról. (Otfried Höffe politikai filozófiája) I. rész
On Political Justice . (The political philosophy of Otfried Höffe – part I.)

Summary/Abstract: In his theory of political justice Otfried Höffe focuses the attention on foundation of the legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of modern state and law, which problems fall into the background of even such of outstanding contemporary philosophical conception as John Rawls’ theory of justice. Höffe develops his theory in three logically connected steps. First he argues for his starting assumption, that the legitimation and limitation simultaneously constitute the basic problem of the modern political philosophy. The justification is achieved by a critical analysis of philosophical and juridical positivism and of theoretical anarchism. The second step is the construction of the basic structure which is generally qualified for performing the requirement of legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of the state. Höffe argues that this basic structure must be a real construction, and that is the model of change, in contrast to the ideal construction of the classical and modern contract theories as well. The third step is the definition of the basic principles and characterization of the institutional system focusing on the human and basic rights for the legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of the contemporary modern state. From a detailed analysis of Höffe’s political justice theory can be some leading considerations and starting points extracted for the foundation of the intercultural exercisable principles of justice, predominately for the human rights. First of all, on the anthropological level definable model of change can be interpreted as the kernel of a relation-anthropology which can serve as the foundation for a reconsidered theory of justice.

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