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  2. A Theory of Justice - Wikipedia

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    The resultant theory was challenged and refined several times in the decades following its original publication in 1971. A significant reappraisal was published in the 1985 essay "Justice as Fairness" and the 2001 book Justice as Fairness: A Restatement in which Rawls further developed his two central principles for his discussion of justice ...

  3. Entitlement theory - Wikipedia

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    Entitlement theory is a theory of distributive justice and private property created by Robert Nozick in chapters 7 and 8 of his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia.The theory is Nozick's attempt to describe "justice in holdings" (Nozick 1974:150)—or what can be said about and done with the property people own when viewed from a principle of justice.

  4. John Rawls - Wikipedia

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    One may illustrate Rawls's idea using a Venn diagram: the public political values will be the shared space upon which overlap numerous reasonable comprehensive doctrines. Rawls's account of stability presented in A Theory of Justice is a detailed portrait of the compatibility of one—Kantian—comprehensive doctrine with justice as fairness ...

  5. Justice - Wikipedia

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    Justice is the concept of cardinal virtues, of which it is one. [11] Metaphysical justice has often been associated with concepts of fate, reincarnation or Divine Providence, i.e., with a life in accordance with a cosmic plan. The equivalence of justice and fairness has been historically and culturally established. [12]

  6. Adalah (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    Adalah (Arabic: عدالة) means justice and denotes the Justice of God. It is among the five Shia Principles of the Religion. Shia Muslims believe that there is intrinsic good or evil in things, and that God commands them to do the good things and shun the evil. They believe that God acts according to a purpose or design, and human reason ...

  7. Christian ethics - Wikipedia

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    Christian ethics, also referred to as moral theology, was a branch of theology for most of its history. [3]: 15 Becoming a separate field of study, it was separated from theology during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Enlightenment and, according to Christian ethicist Waldo Beach, for most 21st-century scholars it has become a "discipline of reflection and analysis that lies between ...

  8. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice - Wikipedia

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    One should aim to maintain general security, while minimizing such damages. Justice must aim at producing the greatest sum of happiness and it requires impartiality. Justice is universal. One's duty is to fulfill one's capacity to bring about the general advantage. One's right is to their share to this general advantage.

  9. Justification (theology) - Wikipedia

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    In Christian theology, justification is the event or process by which sinners are made or declared to be righteous in the sight of God. [1]In the 21st century, there is now substantial agreement on justification by most Christian communions.