Annette Baier: The need for more than justice
February 22, 2010
In this particular chapter, Annette Baier points out the theory of justice. But before that, I will be first defining what justice really is. Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity. Justice concerns itself with the proper ordering of things and people within a society. As a concept it has been subject to philosophical, legal, and theological reflection and debate throughout our history. A number of important questions surrounding justice have been fiercely debated over the course of western history: What is justice? What does it demand of individuals and societies? What is the proper distribution of wealth and resources in society: equal, meritocratic, according to status, or some other arrangement? There are myriad possible answers to these questions from divergent perspectives on the political and philosophical spectrum. For me, I think that in this world today, there really is a need for more than justice. Why did I say that? Look around the environment. There are multiple corruptions, there are multiple poverties around the planet every single day. With these powerful people standing within the government, we, as an ordinary people will have difficulties in attaining justice. For me, it is really immoral. A person who did something wrong or unjust should get punished or should suffer the consequence, not that if a particular attorney and judge are being paid by a powerful person, the case will be forfeited or will belong to the accused. We need fairness in this world.
