VE - LESSON 2(9)

• Best practice to fairly treat others. Golden Mean.
• The Golden Mean represents a balance between extremes
• The 1987 Philippine Constitution's preamble stresses the aspiration of the Filipino people to have a just and humane society
• Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the third longest-serving prime minister in Candian history, describes a just society as one in which all people will have the means and the motivation to participate
• Poverty, Common Good, and the Vision of a Just and Humane Society by Sheen Joshua B. Barrieta describes a just society in which favors the common good before anything else
• Common good is achieved when all work together to improve the well-being of everybody
• Humane society is the one which prioritizes the dignity and respect for human person
• A society is born when people realize that they can benefit much from one another by banding and pooling their strengths together
• According to Aquinas' Treatise on Justice, justice can be defined as the habit by which one renders to each his rights or due with a constant and perpetual will
• St Thomas Aquinas prescribed these 3 types of justice: legal, distributive, and commutative
• Legal justice disposes a citizen to deliver his duties to his country
• Distributive justice deals with the relation of the community as a whole to individuals
• distributive justice calls for the prompt delivery of services by the government to the country's citizens
• commutative justice deals with the relations between individuals within a given communtiy
• industry is an institution where the sectors of labor and capital are involved
• labor sector is represented by a worker who does the dirty and toiling part in the production
• capital is the owner of the business, detached from the production
• social justice is a virtue that disposes everyone to practice respect for human rights that society recognizes than creates, emphasizes equality of all people that is theirs by virtue of being made in Gods image
• Social justice can be achieved when each individual supply with all that is necessary for the exercise of his social functions (Divini Redemptoris 8)
• CHRISTIANITY: treat others the way you would have them treat you: this sums up the law and the prophets
• JUDAISM: what is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire law
• ISLAM: no one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself
• BUDDHISM: hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful
• SIKHISM: as thou deem thyself, so deem others
• CONFUCIANISM: it is the highest goodwill: do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you
• JAINISM: in happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self
• HINDUISM: This is the sum of duty: do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you
• TAOISM: regard your neighbours gain as your gain, and your neighbours loss as your own loss
• BAHAI: blessed is he who preferred his brother before himself
• ZOROASTRIANISM: whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others
• TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGIONS: that which you give to others this will be given to you