Justice Justice names not a thing, but a property of things. It makes sense therefore to focus the explication on the adjective "just"—or, better still, "unjust." Doing so facilitates clarification of how justice...

Justice has to do with the distribution of benefits and burdens, rewards and punishments. Among the most important benefits and burdens of contemporary society are science and technology, their products and their costs. Although science and technology...

The concept of ecojustice has at least two different usages among environmentalists. The first refers to a general set of attitudes about justice and the environment at the center of which is dissatisfaction with traditional theories of justice. With...

Justice is a fundamental value of political science, forming the main preoccupation of both Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics. It can most conveniently be divided into two aspects, procedural justice, and substantive, or...

Everyone likes justice in another’s house, none in his own. (Italian) Favor and gifts disturb justice. (Danish) He that buys magistracy will sell justice. (English) Justice and truth are not to be found in this world. (Spanish) Justice has a...

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...

A fair exchange brings no quarrel. (Danish) A fair exchange is no robbery. (Danish) Fair play’s a jewel. (Dutch) Give and take is fair play....

A just balance preserves justice. (Roman) Be just before you’re generous. (Chinese) Just scales and full measure injure no one....

Authority, founded on injustice, does not remain perpetual. (Roman) Injustice all round is justice....

Fairness, or providing outcomes to each party in line with what they...

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