2/8/12

How ontological values point toward justice

Online Library of Liberty - Ontological Values - Literature of Liberty, April/June 1978, vol. 1, No. 2:

"Justice, in the judgment of social thinkers from Plato to Harvard's John Rawls and Robert Nozick, has meant fairness and rightness of human actions in a social context. This harmony dissolves, however, when each thinker seeks to coherently explain the traditional formulation of justice: “giving to each his due.” What is each person's due? How should society determine and assure just allocation in economic resources, education, social standing, legal justice?

These fundamental questions lead to the rival options of choosing either the state or the market as the mechanism of achieving social justice. Should the state be the voice of justice, and essay to achieve social welfare, equality, distributive justice, and a fair balance of competing claims and rights through its coercive authority? Or should the market—the network of voluntary interactions among humans—be the mechanism to guarantee a spontaneous order of both distributive and commutative and commutative justice?"

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The four ontological values of Abba's Way - tolerance, democracy, helpfulness and non-idolatry - assume a pragmaticist (Peircean) aspect. Continuity and the actual manifestation of these values is the measure of justice attained in history. The first three values interact as active values and non-idolatry is the matrix within which they work out their conclusions which are admittedly fallible and incomplete. They would have to be if continuity is the context of existence (history).


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