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Social justice is the application of general principles of justice to the social order, just as distributive justice and rectificatory justice are applications of general principles of justice to delimited contexts. To claim that a social injustice exists is to claim that a feature or practice of a social order violates a general principle of justice. Accordingly, any answer to the question of what constitutes justice will have obvious implications for specific questions of social justice.
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Bayley, J.E. (1981). Human Nature and Justice. In: Braham, R.L. (eds) Social Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8162-1_1
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