Lesson 3

Different Types of Justice

Justice is a moral virtue that leads the Christian to give God and neighbor their due.

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Right: (n.): That to which someone has a just claim. Some rights, called natural rights, are God-given, fundamental to the human person, and common to all people. It is the duty of government to protect our natural rights. Other rights, called political rights or civil rights, can be given and/ or taken away by civil authority, such as the right to vote, serve on juries, or receive a public education.
The Golden Rule: (n.): The rule to “do unto others as you would have done unto you.” In other words, to treat others as you would wish to be treated. and to love your neighbor as yourself.
Distributive Justice: (n.): The most basic form of social relations pertaining to what any society owes its individual members in proportion to their contributions and needs.
Law: (n.): An ordinance of reason promulgated by a proper authority for the common good.
Authority: (n.): The quality of exercising power over others and expecting obedience from them. All communities need someone or some institution in authority. Authority is exercised legitimately only when it seeks the common good of the group and employs morally licit means to attain it.
Legal Justice: (n.): What each person owes in fairness to the community, such as obeying just laws and respecting legitimate authority.
Property: (n.): Those things we legitimately own, including our material possessions and the fruits of our labor.
Civil Law: (n.): The set of laws people make by their own powers, such as the laws of various federal, state, and local governments.
Anarchy: (n.): A state of lawlessness. In political terms, it is a nation or polity lacking any authority and governance.
Moral Law: (n.): A rule of conduct established by competent authority for the common good. In biblical terms, the moral law is the fatherly instruction of God, setting forth the ways that lead to happiness and proscribing those that lead to evil.
Civil Disobedience: (n.): The refusal to obey civil laws or demands and the willingness to accept punishment for this disobedience, as a form of nonviolent protest.
Commutative Justice: (n.): The regulation of exchange between persons and between institutions in accordance with a strict respect for their rights. It obligates both parties to responsibility, requires safeguarding of property rights, paying debts, and fulfilling obligations freely contracted. Without it, no other form of justice is possible.
Contract: (n.): A legally binding agreement between two or more parties that can be dissolved once the conditions of the agreement have been fulfilled (or not) or upon mutual agreement.
Economic Justice: (n.): A particular expression of commutative justice. It pertains exclusively to the moral obligations of individuals, business, and governments concerning just wages, stable currencies, fair interest rates on loans, safe working conditions for laborers, and other responsibilities associated with economic life.
Covenant: (n.): A sacred permanent bond of family relationship. God entered into a series of covenants with His People throughout Salvation History to invite us to be part of His divine family and to prepare us gradually and in stages, and in words and deeds, to receive the gift of salvation.
Social Justice: (n.): The responsibility of each member of society to respect the dignity of every human being, and the rights which flow from that dignity and guarantee it. Society must provide the conditions that allow people to obtain what is their due according to their nature and vocation.
Socialism: (n.): An economic and political philsophy in which the means of production, distubtution, and exchange is owned by the centralized government. The individual does not own the fruits of his labor, but relies on the government to distribute goods.
Marxism: (n.): The political, economic, and social theory of Karl Marx which holds that all history is the history of class struggle.
Temporal Welfare: (n.): The good pertaining to this earth, as oppossed to the good pertaining to Heaven or eternity.
Generosity: (n.): The quality of freely and abundantly giving to others.

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Lesson 3

Different Types of Justice

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