A History of Utilitarian Ethics: Studies in Private Motivation and Distributive Justice, 1700–1875

The present article chronicles the history of the field of organizational justice, identifies current themes, and recommends new directions for the future. A historical overview of the field focuses on research and theory in the distributive justice tradition (e.g., equity theory) as well as the burgeoning topic of procedural justice. This forms the foundation for the discussion offive popular themes in contemporary organizational justice research: (a) attempts to distinguish procedural justice and distributive justice empirically, (b) the development of new conceptual advances, (c) consideration of the interpersonal determinants of procedural justice judgments, (d) new directions in tests of equity theory, and (e) applications of justice-based explanations to many different organizational phenomena. In closing, a plea is made for future work that improves procedural justice research methodologically (with respect to scope, setting, and scaling), and that attempts to integrate and unify disparate concepts in the distributive and procedural justice traditions.

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Disadvantage, Fairness, and Power Crises in Africa

10.1093/oso/9780198819837.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hanri Mostert ◽

Heleen van Niekerk

Keyword(s):

Distributive Justice ◽

Procedural Justice ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Resource Curse ◽

Extractive Industries ◽

African Countries ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Energy Justice

Realizing energy justice in Africa requires targeting the difficulties that the continent faces. Energy justice is a concept emanating from three philosophical notions, namely distributive justice, procedural justice, and recognition justice. The practical challenges of achieving energy justice are illustrated well in the coal and oil industries of Africa, a continent plagued by the resource curse. Moreover, despite being energy-poor, African countries often export their mined fossil fuels, providing other parts of the world with the energy necessary to live productive and dignified lives. These considerations, in conjunction with Africa’s history of colonialism and the concomitant denial of people’s rights require distinct approaches to distributive, procedural, and recognition justice in extractive industries. This chapter outlines these approaches and explores uniquely African responses to some of the injustices that prevail in Africa’s extractive industries.

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Book Review: A short history of distributive justice

Progress in Human Geography ◽

10.1177/0309132506071536 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 30 (6) ◽

pp. 829-831 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sjoerd Zeelenberg ◽

Justin Beaumont

Keyword(s):

Distributive Justice ◽

Short History ◽

History Of

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Thoughts on G. A. Cohen’s Final Testament

Analyse & Kritik ◽

10.1515/auk-2015-1-207 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 37 (1-2) ◽

Author(s):

John E. Roemer

Keyword(s):

Distributive Justice ◽

Human Nature ◽

Human Society ◽

History Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Do So

AbstractI present briefly G. A. Cohen’s theory of distributive justice, discuss the relationship that I think he believed held between human nature and justice, and offer thoughts on the feasibility of Cohenesque justice, or Cohenesque socialism. I introduce the idea of Kantian equilibrium, as a way of explaining how people cooperate. Expanding the domain of activities in which humans cooperate will, I believe, go a long way towards achieving Cohenesque socialism, and the history of human society suggests it is feasible to do so.

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A Short History of Distributive Justice

History of Political Economy ◽

10.1215/00182702-2006-022 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 781-783 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. T. Young

Keyword(s):

Distributive Justice ◽

Short History ◽

History Of

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Unveiling the Meaning of Social Justice in Colombia

Mexican Law Review ◽

10.22201/iij.24485306e.2018.20.11892 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (20) ◽

pp. 27

Author(s):

Carlos Andrés Pérez Garzón

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Distributive Justice ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Human Dignity ◽

Social Rule ◽

History Of ◽

Mandatory Rules ◽

The Right ◽

Constitutional Discourse

Through the presentation of the history of social justice in global constitutional discourse, this article aims to demonstrate that, although in Colombia there is not a constitutionalized purpose or principle of social justice, as in other countries, the modern notion of distributive justice, also called social justice today, is implicit in the Constitution of 1991 because it enshrined as mandatory rules the three main elements of its meaning at the time of its promulgation: the principle of social rule of law, the principle of human dignity and the right to a material equality. Thus, in Colombia social justice must not be understood in the Aristotelian sense of distributive justice but in accordance with these three elements, and can only be achieved if they are fulfilled.

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