{"id":8290,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/justice\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:06","slug":"justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A balancing of claims in disputes or in distribution of resources. &nbsp;Founded on concepts derived from equity, ethics, law, natural law and religion, it amounts to a theory of moral rightness. &nbsp;One of the foremost spokespersons for this point-of-view was <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/rawls\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/rawls\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Rawls <\/a>(1921-2002) who wrote in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.econ.iastate.edu\/classes\/econ362\/hallam\/readings\/rawl_justice.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www2.econ.iastate.edu\/classes\/econ362\/hallam\/readings\/rawl_justice.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">A theory of justice<\/span><\/a> (1999) that &#8220;Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought (p. 3).&#8221; &nbsp;More recently, one of the most articulate theoreticians on moral justice is <a href=\"http:\/\/athome.harvard.edu\/programs\/jmr\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/athome.harvard.edu\/programs\/jmr\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael J. Sandel<\/a>. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tigger.uic.edu\/~lnucci\/MoralEd\/articles\/nuccisynthesis.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/tigger.uic.edu\/~lnucci\/MoralEd\/articles\/nuccisynthesis.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children <\/a>appear to be able to distinguish between moral justice and social conventions around the age of three years. &nbsp;Thus, age wise, this salient of feature of moral development appears to do-develop with the acquisition of a theory of mind. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"moral_development\">Moral development<\/a>, <a href=\"moral_judgments\">Moral judgments<\/a>, <a href=\"moral_philosophy\">Moral philosophy<\/a>, <a href=\"morality\">Morality<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_the_child-s_mind_-tom-\">Theory of the child&#8217;s mind (ToM)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A balancing of claims in disputes or in distribution of resources. &nbsp;Founded on concepts derived from equity, ethics, law, natural law and religion, it amounts to a theory of moral rightness. &nbsp;One of the foremost spokespersons for this point-of-view was John Rawls (1921-2002) who wrote in his book A theory of justice (1999) that &#8220;Justice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/justice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Justice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}