PAPER ON THE TOPIC THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISTRUBUTIVE JUSTICE AND ITS RELEVANCE UNDER INDIAN CONSTITUTION The jurisprudence of distributive justice‚ according to juristic cynics‚ is an essay in illusion. The basic social system is built on gross inequalities and the power to lobby and mould State policy‚ even judicial policy‚ is heavily in the hands of the proprietariat. Being social realists and meliorists we have to work with the materials that we have and try to read the constitutional provisions
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In an organization there has to be some type of justice. Which is organization justice‚ within this area there are three types of mechanisms‚ distributive‚ procedural‚ and interactional justice. Distributive justice is the equality of how people are treated in terms of reward or what is received from resources. Procedural justice is what is used to allot decisions through impartiality. Interactional justice is the quality of treatment received through methods that are employed. (Kreitner‚ & Kinicki
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Conceptions of justice can be broken down into two separate classifications. Firstly‚ there is the idealistic conception of justice and secondly the realistic conception of justice. The idealistic side of conceptions focuses on an expectation of fairness and a desire for a universal level of fairness whereas‚ the realistic conception focuses on the acceptance of chance and fate and the reality of risk and consequence. John Rawls ‘A theory of justice’ falls under the idealistic conception of justice. He described
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the philosophy of John Rawls with regard to the theory of societal justice. My aim is convey Rawls’ conception of justice. I will discuss his original position of equality and how the essential veil of ignorance collaborates with the original position to arrive at a societal ground zero. I will also address the two principles that Rawls believe would emerge from the original position to guide a just society. Rawls aspires to investigate and present a conception of justice. He believes that‚ in order
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Throughout history and in modern society‚ the relationship between law and justice has been examined and debated resulting in the creation of various theories attempting to outline systems of a just society. Some of these theories revolve around a central notion of a ‘social contract’ in which society is formed through a theoretical agreement between a group of people about their moral and political obligations. This concept has been used by theorists such as Mill and Rousseau‚ to explain why the
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Justice is a concept that can be broken down into a series of smaller beliefs or ideas. In many societies‚ justice is a system in which the people of a community or group are treated according to their actions and behavior. In societies such as this‚ people typically have roles that are delegated or earn where the people who disobey or do not follow the laws or regulations are punish. The idea of what kind of justice a person is entitled to is called distributive justice. This type of justice attempts
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Compare and contrast Rawls’ theory of justice with Hayek’s version of freedom. In doing so please outline and justify which theory provides a better explanation Friedrich Hayek was a British philosopher who wrote from his experiences of World War one in which he served. It is known that based on Hayek’s experience in the war and his desire to help avoid the mistakes that had orchestrated to the war; he was led to this career in which he developed the theory of freedom. Hayek argues that there
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Opposing John Rawls’ difference principle is Robert Nozick‚ who questions the government’s responsibility to exercise the difference principle. Nozick’s believe is that the difference principle is unjust and commences his argument of a just society‚ through his entitlement theory‚ by contemplating the process of property ownership. In doing so‚ Nozick embraces John Locke’s position through the “Just Original Acquisition” principle. According to Locke‚ the “Just Original Acquisition” bases the ownership
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the topic of Distributive Justice. Also whenever we read about Justice‚ we always come crossway the word “Distributive Justice”. This notion of Distributive Justice was widely discussed by John Rawls in his various books. According to him‚ Distributive Justice is the justice in the distribution of wealth and goods. He also talked about end-state conceptions of distributive justice which says that there is some overall pattern of distribution we should aim at. He further said that Justice is a matter
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2011 Peace and Eco-Social Justice: www.iiste.org Failed Distributive Justice‚ Violence and Militancy in India Jose Binoj School of International relations and Politics‚ Mahatma Gandhi University‚ Kerala‚ India * binoj.jose@yahoo.com Abstract Eco-social Justice which emphasizes on the need for economic and social justice along with environmental protection would bring forth peace. Peace is condition where social justice is prevalent and Social Justice is another condition based on
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