Justice


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1 Diverse conceptions of justice.
2 Justice as the interest of the stronger or conformity to the will of the sovereign.
3 Justice as harmony or right order in the soul, original justice.
4 Justice as a moral virtue directing activity in relation to others and to the community, the distinction between the just man and the just act.
5 Justice as the whole of virtue and as a particular virtue, the distinction between the lawful and the fair.
6 Justice as an act of will or duty fulfilling obligations to the common good, the harmonious action of individual wills under a universal law of freedom.
7 Justice as a custom or moral sentiment based on considerations of utility.
8 The precepts of justice, doing good, harming no one, rendering to each his own, treating equals equally.
9 The duties of justice compared with the generosity of love and friendship.
10 The comparison of justice and expediency, the choice between doing and suffering injustice, the relation of justice to happiness.
11 Justice and equality, the kinds of justice in relation to the measure and modes of equality and inequality.
12 Justice and liberty, the theory of human rights.
13 The relation between natural law and natural justice.
14 The relation between natural and positive rights, innate and acquired rights, private and public rights, their correlative duties.
15 The inalienability of natural rights, their violation by tyranny and despotism.
16 Justice as the basis for the distinction between liberty and license.
17 Justice and natural rights as the source of civil liberty.
18 Domestic justice, the problems of right and duty in the family.
19 Economic justice, justice in production, distribution, and exchange.
20 Private and public property, the just distribution of economic goods.
21 Fair wages and prices, the just exchange of goods and services.
22 Justice in the organization of production.
23 Economic exploitation, chattel slavery and wage slavery.
24 Profit and unearned increment.
25 Justice and the use of money, usury and interest rates.
26 Political justice, justice in government.
27 The natural and the conventional in political justice, natural law and the general will.
28 Justice as the moral principle of political organization, the bond of men in states.
29 The criteria of justice in various forms of government and diverse constitutions.
30 The relation of ruler and ruled, the justice of the prince or statesman and of the subject or citizen.
31 The just distribution of honors, ranks, offices, suffrage.
32 Justice between states, the problem of right and might in the making of war and peace.
33 The tempering of political justice by clemency, amnesty, asylum, and pardon.
34 Justice and law.
35 The measure of justice in laws made by the state, natural and constitutional standards.
36 The legality of unjust laws, the extent of obedience required of the just man in the unjust society.
37 The justice of punishment for unjust acts, the distinction between retribution and vengeance.
38 The correction of legal justice, equity in the application of human law.
39 Divine justice, the relation of God or the gods to man.
40 The divine government of man, the justice and mercy of God or the gods.
41 Man's debt to God or the gods, the religious acts of piety and worship.


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