单词 | social justice |
释义 | > as lemmassocial justice social justice n. chiefly Politics and Philosophy justice at the level of a society or state as regards the possession of wealth, commodities, opportunities, and privileges; cf. distributive justice n. at distributive adj. 3b.Much of the debate surrounding social justice has been concerned with the precise nature of fair distribution, and to what extent this may conflict with individual rights of acquisition and ownership. ΚΠ 1824 W. Thompson Inq. Princ. Distrib. Wealth iv. 314 The first principle of social justice, that ‘the sole object of all institutions and laws ought to be to promote the happiness of the whole of the community, or..that the happiness of the greater number should be always preferred to that of the lesser’. 1861 J. S. Mill in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 672/1 Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it... This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice. 1915 T. C. Nixon Ess. Social Justice vi. 171 Distribution according to worth, usefulness or service is the only sound principle for society to follow;..this is the principle of social justice. 1982 R. Scruton Dict. Polit. Thought 245/1 Robin Hood acts unjustly (by taking what he has no right to take) in order to bring about social justice (through redistribution). 2002 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 21/1 He forced the philosophical advocates of egalitarian social justice onto the defensive, by showing how the state cannot be justified as the redistributor of wealth without violating the rights of the individual. < as lemmas |
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