Category: Principle Of Justice

Economic justice relates to both just distribution of economic benefits, resources and opportunities as well as to a just economic structure. On the one hand, the liberal and the welfare perspectives see economic justice in terms of fair and adequate chances to earn livelihood and economic benefits in society. The Anarchists, Socialists and Marxian perspectives…

Social justice in a broader sense, includes distributive principle relating to social opportunities in all its aspects—economic, political, cultural and intellectual. Social justice amounts to presence of equal social opportunities for all to seek the best of their personality and moral and intellectual development. As such, social justice aims at securing those conditions and opportunities,…

While legal justice is more a function of formal provisions such as the Constitution, legislative acts and laws and judicial decisions and pronouncements than the actual political process. Justice in a political aspect relates to what relations the citizens bear with the political set-up, distribution of power and how the state power is organized. It…

In legal dimension, justice relates to law of the state and positive law becomes the basis of justice. Social contractualist Thomas Hobbes, Utilitarian Jeremy Bentham and Analytical jurist John Austin have supported law issued by the sovereign as the sole source of justice. This implies that whatever the sovereign formulates or enacts, or whatever is positive law,…

Dimensions of justice means areas or sphere which is perceived as amenable to adjustment and change as a result of the concept of justice. Starting from the legal dimension, it has been based on social, political and economic demands. We will see how their meaning of justice changes with changed dimensions and what is its…

Nozick responds forcefully to the contemporary debate on justice raised by the Rawlsian welfarist–egalitarian concept of justice. He argues and advocates entitlement-based justice and rejects Rawls’s distribution criteria. Entitlement theory of justice is grounded in inviolable natural rights theory, which provides a strong basis for liberalism. It treats abilities, merits, skills and talents of individual members of society as…

Nozick and Justice as Entitlement Robert Nozick, a Harvard colleague of Rawls, wrote his famous Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974). It is said that this was in response to Rawls’s conception of distributive justice. Nozick’s arguments constitute a powerful reply from the libertarian perspective, which seeks distribution as per rights and entitlement or desert and not equality.…

Rawls’s A Theory of Justice was published at a time when American political and social milieu was covered with issues related to the Civil Rights and Black Liberation movements, Women Rights and Liberation movements, Anti–Vietnam War movements, etc. On the other hand, within the discipline of political science, behavioural and post-behavioural debate has also tilted towards relevant…

John Rawls and Justice as Distribution It has been argued that due to behavioural and positivist emphasis on value-neutral and fact-based political theory, normative content of political theory has declined. In other words, it was felt that in the mid-twentieth century, there was less emphasis on the normative principle in political theory. This could be…

Justice as End of Caste Exploitation Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, a great political and social thinker, lawyer and constitutionalist, is famous as the man who drafted the Indian Constitution. He was the first Union Law Minister after independence. However, behind this great man lies the agony, resentment and anger of those who have been victims…