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Single Idea 23108
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
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Full Idea
Justice is a combination of consistency and desert. Like cases should be treated alike, and likenesses should be evaluated according to desert.
Gist of Idea
Justice combines consistency and desert; treat likes alike, judging likeness by desert
Source
John Kekes (Against Liberalism [1997], 06.3)
Book Ref
Kekes,John: 'Against Liberalism' [Cornell 1997], p.130
A Reaction
[compressed] He needs to add that at least the desert should be relevant to the events being assessed. Should people not get a fair trial if they are branded as generally 'undeserving'? Hence the case must be judged before the desert is identified.
The
42 ideas
with the same theme
[grounds for correcting unfairness in society]:
259
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Justice is granting the equality which unequals deserve
[Plato]
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21044
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For Aristotle, debates about justice are debates about the good life
[Aristotle, by Sandel]
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23916
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The best cure for mutual injustice is friendship
[Aristotle]
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22527
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Justice is the order in a political community
[Aristotle]
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22547
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Justice is equality for equals, and inequality for unequals
[Aristotle]
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2825
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The good is obviously justice, which benefits the whole community, and involves equality in some sense
[Aristotle]
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22573
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The virtue of justice may be relative to a particular constitution
[Aristotle]
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21392
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People change laws for advantage; either there is no justice, or it is a form of self-injury
[Carneades, by Lactantius]
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23179
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People differ in their social degrees, and a particular type of right applies to each
[Aquinas]
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21087
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Human life is pointless without justice
[Kant]
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21057
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The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence
[Kant]
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2911
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True justice is equality for equals and inequality for unequals
[Nietzsche]
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23164
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Modern justice is seen as equality, apart from modest extra rewards for exceptional desert
[Russell]
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23757
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The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love
[Weil]
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23761
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Justice (concerning harm) is distinct from rights (concerning inequality)
[Weil]
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23813
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Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice
[Weil]
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20543
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'Social justice' is a confused idea, and inequalities need no justification
[Hayek, by Swift]
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21229
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If everyone is treated with equal injustice, at least that is fair
[Morgenbesser]
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21018
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The social contract has problems with future generations, national boundaries, disabilities and animals
[Rawls, by Nussbaum]
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21041
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Justice concerns not natural distributions, or our born location, but what we do about them
[Rawls]
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21009
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Capabilities: Life, Health, Safety, Mental life, Love, Planning, Joining in, Nature, Play, Control
[Nussbaum, by PG]
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21010
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Justice requires that the ten main capabilities of people are reasonably enabled
[Nussbaum]
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21013
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Capabilities are grounded in bare humanity and agency; qualifying as rational is not needed
[Nussbaum]
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21014
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Rights are not just barriers against state interference; governments must affirm capabilities of citizens
[Nussbaum]
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23411
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Communitarians see justice as primarily a community matter, rather than a principle
[Kymlicka]
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23412
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Justice resolves conflicts, but may also provoke them
[Kymlicka]
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18655
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Justice corrects social faults, but also expresses respect to individuals as ends
[Kymlicka]
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23108
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Justice combines consistency and desert; treat likes alike, judging likeness by desert
[Kekes]
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21027
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Justice concerns how a society distributes what it prizes - wealth, rights, power and honours
[Sandel]
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21028
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We can approach justice through welfare, or freedom, or virtue
[Sandel]
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21043
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Distributive justice concern deserts, as well as who gets what
[Sandel]
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21042
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Should we redress wrongs done by a previous generation?
[Sandel]
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21048
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Work is not fair if it is negotiated, even in a fair situation, but if it suits the nature of the worker
[Sandel]
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21052
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Justice is about how we value things, and not just about distributions
[Sandel]
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23258
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The very concept of democracy entails a need for justice
[Grayling]
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20534
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Rights and justice are only the last resorts of a society, something to fall back on
[Wolff,J]
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20980
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You don't need a complete theory of justice to see that slavery is wrong
[Sen]
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20978
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Practical justice concerns not only ideals, but ways to achieve them
[Sen]
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20985
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Our institutions should promote justice, rather than embodying it
[Sen]
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20994
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We must focus on removing manifest injustice, not just try to design a perfect society
[Sen]
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21000
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If justice needs public reasoning, which needs democracy, then justice and democracy are linked
[Sen]
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20533
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Justice can be seen as fairness or entitlement or desert
[Swift]
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