Generosity is then a virtue intimately connected to justice, pertaining to the good use of the material goods we are entrusted to steward in this world. The gift of the poor widow is thus more generous than the gifts of ...
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Another word associated with social justice is “the common good.” A wonderful term in itself, its meaning in practice often hinges on a key question, namely, who decides what is the common good. In contemporary times that responsibility gradually ...
Read MoreDr. King saw the need to make a case for the reality of structural injustice that necessitated a response that need not be violent but could be violent. In effect, the Black Power movement responded to the same structural reality ...
Read MoreTo correct, for example, a perceived wrong in the far gone past is not a matter of justice. Some people think that society today must correct every wrong committed during slavery and the descendants of slaves today are owed what ...
Read MoreJustice primarily exist in individual persons, but it can be also expressed in the law of a community, when, aligned with right reason, the law becomes a guarantor of that exercise of giving to each his own. When justice pertains ...
Read MoreReparations argue that racist structures have nonetheless benefited these whites, but again, it’s hard to justify lumping these groups together with white families whose wealth is inherited from slave plantations.
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