Justice

Walter Seymour Allward's Justicia

JUSTICE is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of the said ethics. John Rawls claims that justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. Justice can be thought as distinct from and more fundamental than benevolence, charity, mercy, generosity or compassion.

Understandings of justice differ in every culture, as cultures are usually dependent upon a shared history, mythology and religion. Each culture's ethics create values which influence the notion of justice.

Justice, an emphasized aspect of Islam, is seen as a necessity in order to establish peace.

"And eat up not one another's property unjustly, nor give bribery to the rulers that you may knowingly eat up a part of the property of others sinfully." al-Baqarah:188