Justice

Justice One view sees justice as no more or less than what the current authority says it is. There are no universal principles by which justice or injustice can be defined other than the way in which the government has made its laws. Thus, in different societies and under different authorities, justice is different. In this view, the idea that there is some sort of universal ideal or natural law is often just an argument by those who do not like the laws of the government in power. The opposing view argues that there is a natural ideal of justice that law aspires to that can be used as a criteria to measure whether laws are just or not. This school of thought is traditionally described as people who support the concept of natural law or natural justice. Catholic social teaching is partly based on the assumption principle that there is an ideal of justice that can be discovered and be held up as a criteria with which to evaluate current legal arrangements. These two opposite views of justice are the starting point for analysis. There are many different definitions of justice. Most of these definitions are contested. Let us look briefly at a few. justice, socrates, people, natural, different, thought, teaching, laws, law, just, ideal, view, social, questioning, plato, nothing, knew, government, definitions, criteria, concept, catholic, bc, applied, about, young, wrote, wiser, wise, whether, western, views, universal, under, ultimately, two