Concept
Distributive justice
Overview
concept of the socially just allocation of goods
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This does not belong to God, since, as the Apostle says: "Who hath first given to Him, and recompense shall be made him?" (Rom. 11:35). The other consists in distribution, and is called distributive justice; whereby a ruler or a steward gives to each what his rank deserves. As then the proper order displayed in ruling a family or any kind of multitude evinces justice of this kind in the ruler, so the order of the…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Distributive justice is; the author is tied to Distributive justice in the knowledge graph.
And Distributive Justice, the Justice of an Arbitrator; that is to say, the act of defining what is Just. Wherein, (being trusted by them that make him Arbitrator,) if he performe his Trust, he is said to distribute to every man his own: and his is indeed Just Distribution, and may be called (though improperly) Distributive Justice; but more properly Equity; which also is a Law of Nature, as shall be shewn in due…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Names Distributive justice several times; opens on Distributive justice.
By this plan any body of consumers who form themselves into an association for the purpose, are enabled to pass over the retail dealers and obtain their articles direct from the wholesale merchants, or, what is better (now that wholesale co-operative agencies have been established), from the producers, thus freeing themselves from the heavy tax now paid to the distributing classes and at the same time eliminate the…
John Stuart Mill, Socialism
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Philosophers who discussed Distributive justice
Related ideas
- Vladimir Lenin
- Distribution of wealth
- John Rawls
- Philosophy
- Human rights
- John Stuart Mill
- Karl Marx
- Marxism
- Pope John Paul II
- A Theory of Justice
- Welfare spending
- Social science
- Social psychology
- Aristotle
- Libertarianism
- Equal opportunity
- Social contract
- Jeremy Bentham
- University of Amsterdam
- Consequentialism
- Catholic Church
- The Road to Serfdom
- Environmental degradation
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.