This book is a comparative study of Kant, Rawls, and Habermas and a critical survey of recent theories of justice. It defends the thesis that the normative ground or basis of social criticism is found in a concept of the person as a free and equal moral being. (Source: [State University of New York Press](https://sunypress.edu/Books/N/Normative-Grounds-of-Social-Criticism-The))