A Critique of Liberal Theory of Justice in E. Frazer‘s and N. Lacey‘s Political Philosophy

Abstract

The article discusses E. Frazer and N. Lacey’s feminist project of the theory of justice. The project is being developed through a critique of formalist methodology, characteristic of Kantian liberal theories of justice, and is based on the idea of a methodological synthesis of social and political theory. The possibility of synthesis is revealed through a combination of interpretivist and ontological realist approaches to the issue of justice. Their main reproach to Kantian theories of justice is that they are ill-equipped to endogenize mechanisms of social exclusion and domination, operating in society, which fails to distribute justice so that it may serve a well-being of each individual person.