What is Justice?

 

Cambridge Dictionary

• fairness in the way people are dealt with.
• the system of laws in a country that judges and punishes people

Justice.  Cambridge Dictionary

  

Oxford Dictionary

• the fair treatment of people
• the quality of being fair or reasonable
• the legal system used to punish people who have committed crimes

Justice.  Oxford Dictionary

  

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Justice, In philosophy, the concept of a proper proportion between a person’s deserts (what is merited) and the good and bad things that befall or are allotted to him or her. 

Aristotle’s discussion of the virtue of justice has been the starting point for almost all Western accounts. For him, the key element of justice is treating like cases alike, an idea that has set later thinkers the task of working out which similarities (need, desert, talent) are relevant. 

Aristotle distinguishes between justice in the distribution of wealth or other goods (distributive justice) and justice in reparation, as, for example, in punishing someone for a wrong he has done (retributive justice). 

The notion of justice is also essential in that of the just state, a central concept in political philosophy.

Justice.  Encyclopaedia Britannica

Justice. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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