What is justice?

Answer 1

justice is living a happy life & letting others do the same

Answer 2

For Plato, justice was synonymous with natural order. Everything in it's proper role. Injustice resulted from something being out of order.

Today, justice is more about getting what you deserve.

I guess it depends on how you want to look at it- from a classical perspective or a modern perspective.

Answer 3

True justice is when u place urself in the shoes of the accused and see whether his act was justifiable or not, for eg if the thief was poor,unemployed, unable to feed his family, harshly treated by his society, and the rich does not include him when it comes to giving charity, thus he was forced to steal his right to live, and the the whole society becomes the real criminal that deserves punishment not him!! justice is wisdom and farsightedness that are mingled with mercy,and free from prejudice :)

Answer 4

Justice is what the judge delivers based on the law of land made by the elected college of the country.

Answer 5

Justice is revenge tempered with mercy.

Does justice exist? Now that's the question.

Answer 6

Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons, whatever that contested ideal may turn out to mean. For many, justice is overwhelmingly important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."[1] For many, it has not been achieved: "We do not live in a just world."[2] It is not clear, however, what justice and injustice demand of us. We are in the difficult position of thinking that justice is vital, but of not being certain how to distinguish justice from injustice in our characters, institutions or actions, or in the world as a whole.

This problem of uncertainty about fundamentals has inspired philosophical reflection about justice, as about other topics. What exactly justice is, and what it demands of individuals and societies, are among the oldest and most contested of philosophical questions. For example, the proper distribution of wealth in society — should it be equal? meritocratic? according to status? — has been fiercely debated for at least the last 2,500 years.[3] Philosophers, political theorists, theologians, legal scholars and others have attempted to clarify the source, nature and demands of justice, with widely various results.

We might picture justice as a virtue — a property of people, and only derivatively of their actions and the institutions they create — or as a property of actions or institutions, and only derivatively of the people who bring them about. The source of justice may be thought to be harmony, divine command, natural law, or human creation, or it may be thought to be subordinate to a more central ethical standard. The demands of justice are pressing in two areas, distribution and retribution. Distributive justice may require equality, giving people what they deserve, maximising benefit to the worst off, protecting whatever comes about in the right way, or maximising total welfare. Retributive justice may require backward-looking retaliation, or forward-looking use of punishment for the sake of its consequences. Ideals of justice must be put into practice by institutions, which raise their own questions of legitimacy, procedure, codification and interpretation.

Answer 7

Nevermind the mercy - justice (within the system) is legal revenge.

Answer 8

The administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments

Answer 9

justifying based on true investigated facts, rights and wrongs, without discriminations, hegemony/privileges and or falls evidences provided...

Answer 10

It's intent is prevention.