JUST401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transitional Justice, Sentence Clause Structure, Restorative Justice
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In a short sentence or two, define justice, in your own words. Justice is getting a certain consequence that is deserved after an action. The just word view is a view in which people want to live in such world where people get the consequences they deserve for their actions. What are the four philosophical concepts of justice and what do they mean. 1: utilitarian concept: greatest good, contractual concept: done by agreement and fairness, egalitarian concept: organization of society; as equality. What are three applied concepts of justice and what do they mean (a. 4. sentence fragment will do): commutative concept: formal, legal entitlement, distributive concept: equal division, retributive concept: in relation to blame or fault. The tension between individual justice and social justice is that individual justice focuses on making sure that individuals are able to get what they deserve. In social justice, society makes sure what the groups will receive by what they think they deserve.
