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Jun 26, 2017 · Justice. 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. Classically, justice was counted as one of the four ...
- Retributive Justice
1. The Appeal of Retributive Justice. The appeal of...
- Transitional Justice
The field of transitional justice, which investigates such...
- Global Justice
It is not about finding new answers to what we mean by...
- Intergenerational Justice
Second, other justice-based reasons apply above the...
- Justice as a Virtue
Justice as a Virtue. First published Fri Mar 8, 2002;...
- Distributive Justice
1. Scope and Role of Distributive Principles. Distributive...
- Justice and Bad Luck
It no longer is clear which distribution neutralizes luck....
- Aristotle's Ethics
We study ethics in order to improve our lives, and therefore...
- Retributive Justice
Justice, for many people, refers to fairness. But while justice is important to almost everyone, it means different things to different groups. For instance, social justice is the notion that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social opportunities irrespective of race, gender, or religion.
Nevertheless, justice is an expression of our mutual recognition of each other's basic dignity, and an acknowledgement that if we are to live together in an interdependent community we must treat each other as equals. This article appeared originally in Issues in Ethics V3 N2 (Spring 1990). It was updated in August 2018.
Oct 14, 2023 · From this original position, Rawls proposes two fundamental principles of justice: Equal Liberty Principle: Each person has the same indefeasible claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic liberties, which scheme is compatible with the same scheme of liberties for all. Difference Principle: Social and economic inequalities are to be ...
Jun 1, 2014 · A further point of so me import ance is that “justice” ca n mirror at least the following. eight basic ideas: (i) Justice as equality in the distr ibution o f go ods and evils (distributive ...
- Christoph Horn
Mar 10, 2021 · A Theory of Justice47. 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 ...
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Mar 8, 2002 · Justice as a Virtue. First published Fri Mar 8, 2002; substantive revision Mon Sep 9, 2024. The notion of justice as a virtue began in reference to a trait of individuals, and to some extent remains so, even if today we often conceive the justice of individuals as having some (grounding) reference to social justice.