FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF THE DOMINANT POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTIONS OF JUSTICE

The aim of this article is to explore prevalent absence of conceptions of gender justice within mainstream political theories and to point out the crucial im-portance of gender justice for theories of justice and for practicing justice. The first part explains Aristotle's theory of justice and offers the feminist critique. Plato's the-ory of justice explained in Republic, with ideas about philosopher queens, is exam-ined in the second part. The third part discusses premodern and some contemporary theories of justice that preserve patriarchal patterns of devaluating women within a private-public dichotomy, while the fourth part presents the mainstream and femi-nist theories of justice that overcome a dominant pattern and affirm gender justice in a converging manner. The concluding remarks sum up the crucial role of gender justice for benchmarking further philosophizing on justice