justice

• What is justice?

  a concept described with synonyms such as fairness, equality or even handedness.
• what are the 3 theories of justice?

  • utilitarianism
  • distributive
  • social justice
• What is distributive justice concerned with?


  the fair allocation of the benefits e.g. money, property.
• What does Aristotle say about distributive justice?


  Described justice as referring to individuals in their dealings with eachother and to the state in making and enforcing laws. The worthiest, rather than the neediest, receive the greatest share.
• What is utilitarianism? 


  the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people.
• What does Jeremy Bentham say about utilitarianism?

  Developed the legal and moral principle of utility: what makes an action right or wrong is the usefulness of value of the consequence it brings.

  The more an action increases overall happiness, the more valuable it is.
• What is social justice?

  This concept demands people have equal rights and opportunities.
• What did John Rawls say about social justice? 


  Published the Theory Of Justice. He described justice as fairness. He believed in 2 basic principles of justice within society.
• what are the 2 basic principles of John Rawls?

  • everyone would have an equal right to basic liberties such as right to own property, freedom of speech.
  • social and economic inequalities may exist, but only where they either benefit the least advantaged members of society or provided all offices are open to everyone.
• What is procedural justice?

  concerned with making and implementing decisions according to fair processes.
• what is corrective justice?

  law restores the imbalance that has occurred between 2 individuals or an individual and the state.
• what is substantive justice?

  the content of law itself must be just.