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Mar 31, 2023 · Milhaud treats these ideas of human justice in grandly-conceived historical tableaux whose elaboration and complexity inevitably place obstacles in the way of their being produced today. This is particularly regrettable in the case of Christophe Colomb , an opera conceived on the grandest scale.
1. How does Mill understand utility? The central idea in Mill’s alternative to Bentham’s theory of the human good is his distinction between higher and lower quality pleasures. I will start by exploring the intuitive idea, and then examine the distinction more closely. • Human beings, Mill emphasizes, are distinguished from other animals by
Jun 1, 2014 · Abstract. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2014v13n1p01This article attempts to challenge those contemporary philosophical approaches to justice (and this is the majority of them) which...
- Christoph Horn
Jun 7, 2024 · In the next section, we identify how people can move from the pain and trauma of organizational and societal injustices toward justice. Following Cahn, we argue that justice is the process that promotes healing by effectively acknowledging the pain and trauma created by injustice.
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For all their originality, even Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophies did not emerge in a vacuum. As far back in ancient Greek literature as Homer, the concept of dikaion, used to describe a just person, was important. From this emerged the general concept of dikaiosune, or justice, as a virtue that might be applied to a political society. The issue...
When Christian thinkers sought to develop their own philosophies in the middle ages (“medieval” meaning the middle ages and “middle” in the sense of being between antiquity and modernity), they found precious basic building-blocks in ancient thought. This included such important post-Aristotelians as the enormously influential Roman eclectic Cicero...
Although only half as much time elapses between Aquinas and Hobbes as did between Augustine and Aquinas, from the perspective of intellectual history, the period of modernism represents a staggering sea-change. We have neither the time nor the space to consider the complex causal nexus that explains this fact; but, for our purposes, suffice it to s...
Moving from one of the greatest philosophers of the Enlightenment to the other, we shall see that Kant will take more seriously the “is-ought” challenge than Hume himself did. As justice is both a moral and a political virtue, helping to prescribe both a good character and right conduct, the question of how such obligations arise is crucial. For Hu...
From its founding, American political thought had an enduring focus on justice. The Preamble to the American Constitution says that one of its primary goals is to “establish justice.” Founding father James Madison, in 1788, wrote in The Federalist Papers that justice should be the goal of all government and of all civil society, that people are wil...
a. Primary Sources
1. Thomas Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politics, ed. William P. Baumgarth and Richard J. Regan, S.J. (called “Law”). Indianapolis: Hackett, 1988. 2. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Vol. One (called “Summa”). New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947. 3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Terence Irwin, Second Edition (called “Nicomachean”). Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999. 4. Aristotle, On Rhetoric, trans. George A. Kennedy (called “Rhetoric”). New...
b. Secondary Sources
1. John Arthur and William H. Shaw, ed., Justice and Economic Distribution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978. 1.1. This is a good collection of contemporary readings, especially one by Kai Nielsen. 2. Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 2.1. The articles on Aristotle’s “Ethics” and “Politics” are particularly relevant. 3. Brian Barry, Justice and Impartiality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 3.1. This is a g...
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Wayne P. Pomerleau Email: Pomerleau@calvin.gonzaga.edu Gonzaga University U. S. A.
Oct 24, 2021 · This entry explores the relationship of human rights to the classical understanding of justice as the constant and perpetual determination to give to others their due (see Aquinas 2002, II–II, q. 58, a. 1; Justinian 1904, I.I.10).
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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.
