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Justice is one of the most highly respected notions in our spiritual universe. All men — religious believers and nonbelievers, traditionalists and revolutionaries — invoke justice, and none dare disavow it. The search for justice inspires both the objurgations of the Hebrew prophets and the reflections of the Greek philosophers. It is invoked to protect the established order as well as to justify its overthrow. And so, justice is a universal value.
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Eugène Dupréel, Traité de Morale, Editions de la Revue de l’Université de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1932, Vol. II, p. 484.
Pascal, Pensées, Oeuvres complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, 1950, nos. 235–42.
Cf. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. H. Rackham, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1912, 1129a, 32–34.
Ibid., 1129b, 13.
Ibid., 1129b, 17.
Ibid., 1130a, 8.
Iredell Jenkins, ‘Justice as ideal and ideology,’ in Carl J. Friedrich and John Chapman (eds.), Justice, Nomos VI, Atherton Press, New York, 1963, pp. 202–3.
Ibid., p.98.
William K. Frankena, in Richard B. Brandt (ed.), Social Justice, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962, p.3.
Cf. the very stimulating book by A. P. d’Entrèves, Natural Law, Hutchinson’s University Library, London, 1951, p. 21.
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Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1929, p. 486.
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Perelman, C., Berman, H.J. (1980). Justice and its Problems. In: Justice, Law, and Argument. Synthese Library, vol 142. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9010-4_2
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