The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.
Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.
The principle of fairness; the ideal of moral equity.
Fairness or equality in apportioning advantages and rewards, as well as punishing wrong conduct. We need justice in order to protect the rights of everyone. The quality of justice means standing up for our own rights and the rights of other people.
Fair or right treatment or action.
Fair, equitable, and appropriate treatment in light of what is due or owed to persons. The maintenance or administration of what is just, especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments. The quality of being just, impartial, or fair. The principle or ideal of just dealing or right action, or conformity to this principle or ideal: righteousness.
A common feature of many moral theories, it usually requires broader thought about the implications of an action upon competing concerns before the action taken can be considered just.
Fair distribution of benefits and burdens, fair correction of wrongs and injuries, or use of fair procedures in gathering information and making decisions.
Variously defined as fairness, rightfulness, giving persons their due, and a balancing of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
In this book, the ethical value to be had in a community from conferring rights and obligations in a way that's fair and accords to other ethical values (e.g. non-maleficence, beneficence). See also distributive justice.
this bioethics principle is concerned with treating patients fairly in healthcare systems through access to care, quality of care received, and sharing the burden of cost throughout society.
Justice consists in treating equal cases equally. ... more ...
When the severity of the punishment or reward is matched as closely as possible to the severity of the offense or deed, and dispensed by a democratically valid authority.
the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is justice denied"
the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870
Fair, equal, and reasonable treatment without regard to a person's color, sex, gender, age, health, wealth or poverty, background, race/ethnicity, condition, sexual orientation, or gender identity; fair and equal treatment under the law and in all societal interactions
The duty to treat all fairly, distributing the risks and benefits equably. Back to the top of the page
One of God's attributes, by virtue of which He wills equal laws and makes just awards
Ethical debates in this area surround the definition of justice and how to make justice operate effectively in the community. There are two main theories. Individualistic theories maintain that communities are made up of individuals and therefore justice should preserve the rights of individuals. Individualism is characterised by Margaret Thatcher's claim that "there is no such thing as society" and Thomas Hobbes' theory that individuals make rules to live by for selfish reasons - that it is in their best interest. Communitarian theories hold that society is more than the sum of its parts and has some organic dimension. Plato recognised the importance of community in his city-state. Marx, MacIntyre and John Rawls developed communitarian theories of justice.
The upholding of what is just—especially, fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards of equity and morality, or the law.
The principle that states that fairness requires equals to be treated equally.
The most important utopian target of the humanity in every time. Relatively and partially possible in the organized human societies, but conflict with the biological reason and the laws of the necessity. He is to the base of the ethical argumentation.
Fairness, equity, and morality in action or attitude in order to promote and protect human rights and responsibilities. In most societies, people work for justice by organizing through different categories of rights, such as civil, political, economic, social, and cultural.
Something Ohio knows nothing about. Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
1. Fairness 2. The restoration of what has been lost
An emotional and rational concept requiring the impartial assignment of benefits or costs based upon individual merit.
a broad term which includes the meaning of fair distribution; that is, each person should receive like goods, services, and opportunities
An ethical principle that requires fairness in the distribution of burdens and benefits; often expressed in terms of treating persons of similar circumstances or characteristics similarly (see Equitable).
Generally fairness, understood to be something beneficial and to including paying this benefit to others. Within Plato's "Republic" and elsewhere, we find that acts which do not benefit towards whom they are directed are not just. Neither are they ethical.
An ethical principle discussed in the Belmont Report requiring fairness in the distribution of burdens and benefits; often expressed in terms of treating persons of similar circumstances or characteristics similarly.
treating each as he deserves to be treated
The virtue of treating others how they deserve to be treated.
moral rightness; fairness
is divided into different kinds. Aristotle said it basically means to give people what is due them. What is due them is the debatable issue. Various areas of what is due people can be divided into the following four kinds of justice. First, "Substantive Justice" calls for as much equal and compatible freedom as possible, such as those freedoms (rights) essential for protecting and developing one's potentialities and destiny. Second, "Procedural Justice" demands impartial and consistent treatment, equal opportunity and fair rules with due process. Next, "Distributive Justice" refers to fairness in dispensing society's benefits and burdens in a manner that provides for dignity and subsistence for all citizens. Finally, "Compensatory Justice" involves reparations for previous wrongs.
One of five principles of ethical behavior that guide the construction and development of the CRCC Code of Ethics. It refers to that aspect of the “spirit of caring and respect†that requires rehabilitation counselors to always, “be fair and give equally to others†(preamble of the CRC Code of Ethics)
Justice is a concept involving the fair, moral, and impartial treatment of all persons, especially in law. It is often seen as the continued effort to do what is "right." In most of all cases what one regards as "right" is determined by consulting the majority, employing logic, or referring to divine authority, in the case of religion. If a person lives under a certain set law in a certain country, justice is considered making the person follow the law and be punished if not.
Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons, whatever that contested ideal may turn out to mean. For many, justice is overwhelmingly important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (revised edn, Oxford: OUP, 1999), p. 3 For many, it has not been achieved: "We do not live in a just world."Thomas Nagel, 'The Problem of Global Justice', Philosophy and Public Affairs 33(2005): 113-47. p. 113. It is not clear, however, what justice and injustice demand of us.
In the Catholic religion, Justice is one of the four cardinal virtues. It is the moderation between selfishness and selflessness; treating all people equally to oneself and to each other.
JUSTICE is a human rights and law reform organisation based in the United Kingdom. It is the British section of the International Commission of Jurists, the international human rights organisation of lawyers devoted to the legal protection of human rights worldwide. Consequently, members of JUSTICE are predominantly barristers and solicitors, judges, legal academics, and law students.
'Justice' in many usages, including economic ones, may express ethical acceptance of some possible social state(s) against which other possible social states are measured. By contrast, the usage of 'justice' in economics is as a subcategory of welfare economics with models representing the ethical requirements of a given theory. That theory may or may not elicit acceptance.
