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  1. Oct 14, 2023 · Examines John Rawls' principles of justice, focusing on equal liberty and the difference principle, advocating for a society where fairness prevails through equal rights and positive discrimination to benefit the least advantaged.

  2. Jun 26, 2017 · The idea of justice occupies centre stage both in ethics, and in legal and political philosophy. We apply it to individual actions, to laws, and to public policies, and we think in each case that if they are unjust this is a strong, maybe even conclusive, reason to reject them.

  3. Mar 10, 2021 · A Theory of Justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls, in which the author attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society) by utilising a variant of the familiar device of the social contract. The resultant theory is known as "Justice as Fairness", from which ...

  4. Jun 1, 2014 · After having pointed out some of the essential features of the Millian (and Rawlsian) concept, I show how far these attributes are away from what we (in our everyday language) mean by the word...

    • Christoph Horn
  5. Mar 8, 2002 · Rawls’s positive view of justice is concerned primarily with the justice of institutions or (what he calls) the “basic structure” of society: justice as an individual virtue is derivative from justice as a social virtue defined via certain principles of justice.

    • Mark LeBar, Michael Slote
    • 2002
  6. ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu › glossary › justiceJustice - Ethics Unwrapped

    Environmental justice is the fair treatment of all people with regard to environmental burdens and benefits. Restorative or corrective justice seeks to make whole those who have suffered unfairly. Retributive justice seeks to punish wrongdoers objectively and proportionately.

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  8. Ethics is the study of what is right and wrong, in the sense of obligations in action. Justice pertains to what is allowed, merited, and required of acting entities.

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