Distributive Justice
Aquinas on Distributive Justice
“Pay to all what is due them; to whomever you owe contributions, make a contribution; to whom taxes are due, pay taxes; to whom respect is due, give respect; to whom honor is due, give honor. * Romans A. Justice
The study is influenced out of a longstanding dissatisfaction with contemporary academic thinking about justice, and especially with the estrangement between that thinking and a sense of justice that has been, and remains, widely shared across many cultures since the earliest times of which we possess written records. In order to pierce the academic bubble within which scholarly conversation about justice has been contained for at least the past several decades, the researcher from the immersed authors from some selected journals, books, magazines, and speakers have recaptured various sensibilities that have motivated people’s ideas about justice over the centuries from some of our notable philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and so on. The researcher hopes that the result of the efforts made by our forefathers will cast some light on the idea of justice itself, as well as unearthing evidence for a history of ideas that some are already been either long forgotten or without delay and unjustifiably dismissed.
The English term ‘justice’ (as also the Spanish term justicia, Italian guistizia, German gerechtigkeit, and in Frence justice) is used in different contexts, with so many distinction or variation that it is hardly possible to convey a comprehensive understanding and account to it. There is an obvious linguistic root in Latin term, as we speak of justice, the term ius meaning ’right’, but this cannot simplify any matter because it too is used, as said earlier, in different nuances or senses. The researcher has listed some terms that offer no more than a perspective on the complexity of the reality of justice. This perspective is an essentially dynamic character to
“Pay to all what is due them; to whomever you owe contributions, make a contribution; to whom taxes are due, pay taxes; to whom respect is due, give respect; to whom honor is due, give honor. * Romans A. Justice
The study is influenced out of a longstanding dissatisfaction with contemporary academic thinking about justice, and especially with the estrangement between that thinking and a sense of justice that has been, and remains, widely shared across many cultures since the earliest times of which we possess written records. In order to pierce the academic bubble within which scholarly conversation about justice has been contained for at least the past several decades, the researcher from the immersed authors from some selected journals, books, magazines, and speakers have recaptured various sensibilities that have motivated people’s ideas about justice over the centuries from some of our notable philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Mill, Rawls, and so on. The researcher hopes that the result of the efforts made by our forefathers will cast some light on the idea of justice itself, as well as unearthing evidence for a history of ideas that some are already been either long forgotten or without delay and unjustifiably dismissed.
The English term ‘justice’ (as also the Spanish term justicia, Italian guistizia, German gerechtigkeit, and in Frence justice) is used in different contexts, with so many distinction or variation that it is hardly possible to convey a comprehensive understanding and account to it. There is an obvious linguistic root in Latin term, as we speak of justice, the term ius meaning ’right’, but this cannot simplify any matter because it too is used, as said earlier, in different nuances or senses. The researcher has listed some terms that offer no more than a perspective on the complexity of the reality of justice. This perspective is an essentially dynamic character to