POLI 1001 : Poli1001exam2 1
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What is general justice, righteousness, state of character (reflects aristotle"s virtue ethic side), obedience to the laws and fairness, the sum of all the virtues, virtue that regulates the proper conduct within society and towards self-respect self. Retributive justice: distributive, how we distribute the goods and services of our society and most importantly on what value or values we base that distribution on, who gets what, when why, and how. Consists of value decisions-what values do we as a society want to emphasize: retributive, has to do with what we do when someone commits a wrong. When wrongs are done, world is in a state of unbalance: retributive justice restores equilibrium/balance revenge-state vs who is accused-highly rational/individuated but during part, civil and criminal. Heinous crimes family gets a say in sentencing-tribal: what is a constitution, constitutions are how people organize themselves to be governed.
