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- A ‘philosophical’ approach to justice is one that takes normative questions seriously (broadly speaking, normative questions are questions about how the world ought to be). Since normative questions cannot be answered simply by collecting empirical evidence, they call for a rigorous approach which differs from that of empirical science.
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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.
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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
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There are many different approaches to philosophy justice. This article looks at Socrates’ answer, Rawls’ theory of justice, Nagel’s theory of justice, and the Principle of non-opposition. All three are important, but Socrates’ is perhaps the most interesting.
Typically the article considers not only their theories of justice but also how philosophers apply their own theories to controversial social issues—for example, to civil disobedience, punishment, equal opportunity for women, slavery, war, property rights, and international relations.
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 ...
The idea of justice lies at the heart of moral and political philosophy. It is a necessary virtue of individuals in their interactions with others, and the principal virtue of social institutions, although not the only one.
Jun 5, 2012 · In 1971 the philosophical world was waiting both literally and metaphorically for A Theory of Justice. Many philosophers eagerly anticipated it because John Rawls had already published key elements of his theory in a series of articles, and for several years he had circulated drafts of sections of the book.
