Title: Justice - Wikipedia
Headings: Justice
Justice
Contents
Harmony
Divine command
Natural law
Despotism and skepticism
Mutual agreement
Subordinate value
Theories of distributive justice
Social justice
Fairness
Property rights
Welfare-maximization
Theories of retributive justice
Utilitarianism
Retributivism
Restorative justice
Mixed theories
Theories
Rawls' theory of justice
Equality
Equality before the law
Relational justice
Classical liberalism
Religion and spirituality
Abrahamic justice
Theories of sentencing
Evolutionary perspectives
Reactions to fairness
Institutions and justice
See also
Other pages
Types of justice
References
Further reading
External links

Content: Consequently, the application of justice differs in every culture. Early theories of justice were set out by the Ancient Greek philosophers Plato in his work The Republic, and Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics. Throughout history various theories have been established. Advocates of divine command theory have said that justice issues from God. In the 1600s, philosophers such as John Locke said that justice derives from natural law. Social contract theory said that justice is derived from the mutual agreement of everyone. In the 1800s, utilitarian philosophers such as John Stuart Mill said that justice is based on the best outcomes for the greatest number of people. Theories of distributive justice study what is to be distributed, between whom they are to be distributed, and what is the proper distribution. Egalitarians have said that justice can only exist within the coordinates of equality. John Rawls used a social contract theory to say that justice, and especially distributive justice, is a form of fairness.