Jonathan EmmesediI finished Stuart Hampshire"s "Justice is Conflict" and found his discussion of justice as a procedure for adversary conflict constrained by the maxim "audiatur et altera pars" rewarding. In addition, his view of politics as unending conflict struck me as both correct and reminded me of passages in Isaiah Berlin and Bernard Williams. At some point soon I should read his "Innocence and Experience".
This reading reflects an interest of mine in realism in political philosophy. In connection with this, I want to reread the relevant essays of Raymond Geuss and Bernard Williams, and engage more with the scholarship on Machiavelli.
