Justice — Flashcards

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Justice connects law, rights, liberty, equality, and fraternity or cooperation in normative political theory.

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Justice is difficult to define because different people give it different meanings at different times, and its implications change from person to person and situation to situation.

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Justice is dynamic because its implications change over time. What is seen as just in one period may be seen as unjust in another.

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Justice is aligned with morality. A fair race is one where there is no cheating, no jumping the gun, and no unfair advantage.

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Justice requires a prior idea of what a just state of affairs looks like before the justice of any action can be judged.

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In a normative sense, justice means joining or fitting, like a bond or tie. It is linked to ideas of what ought to be right.

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In an empirical sense, justice is related to positive law. This makes law and justice sister-concepts.

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Harold Potter says that most people think they understand justice, but their ideas are vague.