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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
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- Transitional Justice
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- Global Justice
This might mean focusing on a few key players who have both...
- Intergenerational Justice
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- Justice as a Virtue
The notion of justice as a virtue began in reference to a...
- Distributive Justice
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- Justice and Bad Luck
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- Aristotle's Ethics
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- 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 ...
Mar 8, 2002 · 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. But from the start, the focus on justice as a virtue faced pressures to diffuse, in two different ways.
- Mark LeBar, Michael Slote
- 2002
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 ...
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In summary, the following points are di culties in Mill’s understanding of the interactions between ethics and justice: First, ethics is not only a foundation of justice, because justice is even more strongly a foundation for ethics. Second, Mill holds a concept of justice which undermines its own ethical foundation, and in which the very ...