THE LOVE AND JUSTICE

FRAMEWORK
LOVE AND JUSTICE
▣ Love is often considered a partial, even blind, sentiment
that underlies only personal relationships. It is the basic
value governing private life. Justice, on the other hand, is
supposed to be the basic value governing our public life.
▣ Committing to a love ethic calls us to look closely at the
choices we make, both big and small, as well as the
relationships we have with other people. A love ethic
invites us to do this self-reflection not from a place of fear
or shame, but instead from a place of love.
▣ Justice means giving each person what he or she deserves
or, in more traditional terms, giving each person his or her
due. Justice and fairness are closely related terms that are
often today used interchangeably.
 CONNECTION OF LOVE TO JUSTICE
▣ Justice requires that
people have what they
need in order to lead
sufficiently good lives
(sufficientarianism).
People need to be loved
and to be able to love at
least sometimes and to
some degree in order to
lead sufficiently good lives.
Love is a matter of justice.
CAN WE HAVE LOVE WITHOUT JUSTICE?
▣ “There can be no love without justice…
abuse and neglect negate love. Care and
affirmation, the opposite of abuse and
humiliation, are the foundation of love.
 IMPORTANCE OF JUSTICE ( In Ethics )
▣ Justice is one of the most
important moral values in
the spheres of law and
politics. Legal and political
systems that maintain law
and order are desirable,
but they cannot
accomplish either unless
they also achieve justice.
THE INFLUENCE OF LOVE IN THE EXERCISE OF JUSTICE

▣ Love unites the citizens of a distinct political

community, binding them together with a
care for both the individual and the common
good. It imbues them with a devotion to the
constitutional order to which they subject
themselves. It burdens them with fealty to
those who bear political authority.
 JUSTICE
▣ Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of
things and persons
▣ It is based on individual moral rights
▣ Justice can be handled in three
subcategories which are distributive justice,
retributive justice, and compensatory justice
 JUSTICE
DISTRIBUTIVE RETRIBUTIVE COMPENSATORY
JUSTICE JUSTICE JUSTICE
 refers to the  response to  Refers to the extent
to which people are
perceived criminal
fairly compensated
fairness of an behaviour that for their injuries by
allocation or, focuses on the those who have
more broadly, to punishment of injured them
how people judge lawbreakers and
what they the compensation
receive. of victims.
 1. LOVE
ONLY IS
ALWAYS
GOOD
6. LOVE
2. LOVE IS
DECIDES
THE ONLY
THERE
NORM
AND THEN
THE 6
FUNDAMENTAL
PRINCIPLES
3. LOVE AND
5. LOVE IS JUSTICE ARE
THE ONLY THE SAME, AND
MEANS LOVE IS JUSTICE
4. LOVE WILLS DISTRIBUTED
THE NEIGHBOUR’S
GOOD, WHETHER
WE LIKE HIM OR
NOT
 THE 6 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
1. LOVE ONLY IS 2. LOVE IS THE ONLY 3. LOVE AND JUSTICE
ALWAYS GOOD NORM ARE THE SAME, AND
LOVE IS JUSTICE
DISTRIBUTED
 Actions are only  The basis of every
good if they help Christian decision
humans ( Showing should be love:  Love and justice can
love for one another not be separated
nothing else
) and they are bad if
they hurt people.
 THE 6 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
4. LOVE WILLS THE 5. LOVE IS THE ONLY 6. LOVE DECIDES
NEIGHBOUR’S MEANS THERE AND THEN
GOOD, WHETHER
WE LIKE HIM OR
 Whether something
NOT  When weighing
is right or wrong
up a situation, depends on the
 Your neighbour is one must situation and can’t
anybody and consider what be pre – determined
agape love goes you want the Justice and fairness:
outcome to be Promoting the
out to everyone
and what you common Good as a
need to do to get moral Framework
there.
 JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS
A. SOCIAL JUSTICE B. JUSTICE AS THE C. DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
MINIMUM DEMAND OF
LOVE
 the notion that  Distributive justice
 To do justice is
everyone deserves concerns the
ready an act of love,
equal economic, socially just
the minimum
political, and social allocation of
demand of love.
opportunities resources. Often
Which means that
irrespective of race, contrasted with just
love is more, gives
gender, or religion. process, which is
more than what is
concerned with the
just. Mathemaically,
administration of
if love is 100% of
law, distributive
being for others,
justice concentrates
then jusice may just
on outcomes.
be only 10%.
THE FOLLOWING HAVE FEATURES
OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE :
 1. EGALITARIANISM
 A trend of thought in
political philosophy.
An egalitarian favors
equality of some sort:
People should get the
same, or be treated
the same, or be
treated as equals, in
some respect.
 2. CAPITALIST AND FREE MARKET SYSTEM
▣ Capitalism refers to the
creation of wealth and
ownership of capital,
production, and distribution,
whereas a free market system
has to do with the exchange of
wealth or goods and services.
Key features of capitalism
include personal ownership
of property, open
competition, and individual
incentives.
 3. SOCIALIST
▣ follow the rule, “ from each
according to his ability, to
each according to his
needs.
 4. TAXATION
▣ the imposition of
compulsory levies on
individuals or entities by
governments in almost
every country of the world.
Taxation is used primarily
to raise revenue for
government expenditures,
though it can serve other
purposes as well.
 5. PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC
WELFARE
▣ The government has
constitution-granted
power to govern, to make,
adopt, and enforce laws for
the protection and
preservation of public
health, justice, moral,
order, safety and security
and welfare.
THE END
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