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Understanding Justice: Key Concepts & Types

Justice, derived from the Latin word 'jus', refers to giving each person what they deserve. Peschke identifies three characteristics of justice: it serves as a social norm, is approbative, and is obligatory. The document also classifies justice into various types, including attributive, procedural, proportional, social, retributive, and compensatory justice.

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  • social partners,
  • distributive justice,
  • Positive Law Theory,
  • legal conformity,
  • justice,
  • directive norms,
  • justice definitions,
  • Social Justice,
  • social good,
  • Social Good Theory
87 views7 pages

Understanding Justice: Key Concepts & Types

Justice, derived from the Latin word 'jus', refers to giving each person what they deserve. Peschke identifies three characteristics of justice: it serves as a social norm, is approbative, and is obligatory. The document also classifies justice into various types, including attributive, procedural, proportional, social, retributive, and compensatory justice.

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Topics covered

  • social partners,
  • distributive justice,
  • Positive Law Theory,
  • legal conformity,
  • justice,
  • directive norms,
  • justice definitions,
  • Social Justice,
  • social good,
  • Social Good Theory

MODULE 17

JUSTICE
The term “justice” is derived from the Latin
word jus meaning right. Justice means to accord
each person what he or she deserves or to give
each person his or her due.

In his book Christian Ethics, Peschke (1994)


explains that justice is much invoked claim and
virtue.
Peschke list three characteristics of justice:
a. Justice is a social norm that is directive for guiding
humans in their actions toward another.
b. Justice is approbative in the sense that judging an
action to be just manifests approval of that action.
c. Justice is obligatory in the sense that judging a
certain course of action to be just entails that a person
in a similar situation ought to do the same thing.
In addition to the characteristics of justice. Peschke
draws on the following theories of justice.
a. Positive Law Theory- defines justice as
conformity to the law and thereby reduces that just
to the legal.
b. Social Good Theory- defines justice as doing
what useful for social good.
c. Natural Right Theory- holds that the natural
right is ultimate basis of justice.
CLASSIFICATION OF JUSTICE
1. Attributive justice - renders to every person what is his
or her rights and attributes to him or her what he or she
really is.
2. Procedural Justice- concerned with making and
implementing decisions according to fair procedures that
ensure fair treatment.
3.Proportional Justice- renders to every person what is his
or her due by right,what he or she does not yet own but
what he or she is entitled to receive as a remuneration,
compensation or benefit,or what he or she is also obliged to
accept as a burden in the service of the community.
4.Social Justice- refers to the economice welfare of
social groups wherein it demands a proportionate
share for the social partners in the fruits of their
economic cooperation.
5.Retributive Justice- the just imposition of punishments
and penalties on those guilty of performing wrongful
acts.
6.Compensatory Justice- the just way of compensating
people for what they lost as a result of wrongful actions
done to them.

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