What is Justice?
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Justice is a Right Balance in Social Politics40% Voted for by GaryCGibson, Dwn.
Justice is a right and equal balnce of political rights in a given society. Unequal rights means unequal justice. If everyone is on the same legal sheet of music, or basis, and the law is with the consent of the governed then justice will probably be found to exist within that context.
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The question of what is justice becomes more difficult if one throws in terms like 'universals' and 'constants'. Universals have a sort of platonist or neo=platonist definition origin, or at least a meaning in formal logic, while the needs of living human beings for fair personal equality and security are fairly constant empirical or social governance changes.
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In some societieis a king administers justice, but in an historical timeline equal justice or justice at all tends to be necessarily equal to the social expressions of the age if the populace is to be happy or consider justice to exist generally.
In ancient Egypt circa 2500 b.c. few people would have expected a gagle of ACLU lawyers to show up with miranda rights or habeas corpus defenses for disrespectors of Pharoah or his priesthood. Jesus was crucified a while later for possibly rivaling Ceasar in theory or more proximally for blasphemy. Being God it was a silly charge.***
When a society regress into a dictatorship or loses rights, or when a government backslides from a good constitutional form of government to one of neolawless supremacy justice isn't well-served, or considered to be by many in comparison.
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It should be remembered that many people are content to have everything go their was as members of a group, and don't really care about individual justice. Mass broadcast media works against individual justice today, and against quality mass education.
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Power40% Voted for by Auxiliar, Dwn.
Justice doesn't need to be a reaction; in enough cases it has turned out to be a preemptive strike against those weaker that the administrator becomes more powerful. As Michel Foucault says, "The soul is the prison of the body." Justice is the labarum, the etandard sanglant, it's Old Glory and the trumpet - it is the means whereby forms of power manifest themselves over people being equal in all forms other than those that the administrators of justice mete out.
On another level, it emerges as people and the roles they assume specialize, they contact and rile each other, and must strike a bargain. We ourselves wonder how we should act in order to be polite (or impolite), how polite people interact with or correct impolite people, and this behavior is our individual standard for justice.
The worst part is that the drive to power tends to disguise itself as the drive to harmony. There is always something to be done, and anyone aspiring to power or harmony can take either of these routes. Justice lies in the dynamic of the least and most decent in a community, and following this suit they are indistinguishable in the workings of justice. Justice is a dollar bill used by cocaine abusers and finding its way into the collection plate. It's the practical search with practical benefits, though it has an impractical object with impractical destiny to lead it.
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RevengeVoted for by Dwn.
Justice is the act of perpatrating revenge upon an accused in the name of punishment, a suposed equalization
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Stella Cadente
August 17, 2006
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Political rights?
How can you talk about political rights when they are made by politicians? The ones that use corruption as a protection?The corruption that keeps them cynics safe and warm, that keeps them prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why they win. I don't believe in justice if you use it in the same sentence with the word "politics". We are trying to find the definition of a justice, not a lot of justices...because, there are a lot of "justices" in the world of politics...like the word politics itself poli=many!GaryCGibson
August 21, 2006
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The Origin of Political Rights"
"How can you talk about political rights when they are made by politicians?" *** Political rights, the declaration stipulated, originate inalienably in the individual. Mankind is born with certain inalienable rights the founders believed. They of course expressed that in the Declaration of independence. England and King George had violated their rights. *** Of course without a sufficient education in political philosophy it is possible to have such a narrow view of politics that one could believe that a powerful social class is immediately the source of political rights, in error. *** Certainly politicians may corrupt just laws and just, codified social relations amidst citizens to such an extent that one might cynically say that political rights could not encapsulate social justice, or justice intersocially, again that would be a wrong opinion. *** It is possible to mistake a corruption of social relations, a corruption of political social relations, and a corruption of justice in corrupt laws for a state of unchangeable affairs whereby politics and justice are implicitly impossible in human society. Politics can encompass a broad spectrum of relations and order some of which are corrupt and some of which are not, their is also an element of subjectivity in opinions about that obviously, however government and politics with the consent of the governed is the essential democratic principle of establishing justice in a society. Right politics, laws and justice find equal protection of individuals within the legal context essential. *** The fundamental problem with democracy is that it is a participation requisite form of government in which people are too happy to be disinterested and will allow any reasonably persuasive and powerful organizations to run for them. Then government becomes unresponsive to the interests of the people and the laws may become corrupted pervasively without justice for many and without equal protection of the law for minorities or individuals too as the case may be. **** I think justice is basically a concept about fair, rational apportionment of individual rights and responsibilities, accountability and opportunity to be free and persue enlightened self interest intersocially. Those rights are formalized with the consent of the citizens of the nation, and enacted by specialists called politicans and bureaucracies, a judiciary and officers of the courts. **** In the 19th century Jean Jacque Rousseau wrote about the rights of man quite well, yet he had the basic perhaps pragmatic belief that social 'rights' originated in society and mankind...it was perhaps a sort of existentialist approach. In the later Declaration of Indendence the rights of mankind were postulated to be inalienable arising within the individual and given by God. One might stipulate that is has a sort of natural law origin of the sort that Cicero wrote of in the first century b.c. Justice is to keep those rights intact, and to restore just balances intersocially when those rights are impinged, infringed or broken by offenses civil or criminal. *** Justice, like the definition of truth with a disquotation context, has an actual meaning. The apportionment of justice defined will vary from individual to individual, and society to society, and of course will also differ between various groups and schools of thought. For the majority of mankind, and for tose sentient beings that comprise the majority of mankind the protection or defense of their individual rights, the political state of affairs that afford redress for injustice through objective and equal legal codes, will serve as a popular meaning of justice.Please register or login to comment! It's totally free