Pourquoi la justice est nécessaire ?

La Justice fait respecter les règles de la vie en société. Elle sanctionne les actes et comportements interdits par la loi, mais pas seulement ! Elle protège les personnes les plus fragiles comme les enfants. Elle est aussi là pour mettre fin à des conflits*.

Pourquoi la justice est injuste ?

La Justice est souvent mise en cause pour ses décisions que l’on peut trouver injustes. (décisions jugées trop laxistes ou trop sévères, présence d’inégalité voire soupçon de partialité). Mais ces critiques supposent que l’on dispose d’un critère qui permette d’évaluer ce qui est juste ou non.

What is the meaning of justice according to Plato?

• (Plato, Republic, 490d). Justice: Justice is the result of the three virtues -moderation, courage, and wisdom- that Plato mentions. He defines justice as having and doing of one’s own work and not meddling with what it is not one’ own.

What distinguishes Justice from other ideas?

• We begin by identifying four core features that distinguish justice from other moral and political ideas. We then examine some major conceptual contrasts: between conservative and ideal justice, between corrective and distributive justice, between procedural and substantive justice, and between comparative and non-comparative justice.

Is Justice a matter of how each separate person is treated?

• That justice is a matter of how each separate person is treated appears to create problems for theories such as utilitarianism that judge actions and policies on the basis of their overall consequences aggregated across people – assuming that these theories wish to incorporate rather than discard the idea of justice.

What is Justice justice and arbitrariness?

• Justice is the opposite of arbitrariness. It requires that where two cases are relevantly alike, they should be treated in the same way (We discuss below the special case of justice and lotteries). Following a rule that specifies what is due to a person who has features X, Y, Z whenever such a person is encountered ensures this.