Monday, October 23, 2017

Justice and Requital

Since terms like Retributive Justice and Rectificatory Justice typically connote punishment, theories of Justice tend to ignore Just positive requital, e. g. a reward.  So, what can be called Reciprocatory Justice is the more general category of Just requital.  Now, in many cases, positive Reciprocity is, like punishment, e. g. an eye for an eye, based on a one-to-one formula, e. g. a bonus.  But in other cases, e. g. profit-sharing, a determining factor in the formula is a scheme of Distribution.  Thus, most generally, Reciprocatory Justice is coordinated with Distributive Justice, with simple one-to-one requital a special case, i. e. when return is not delimited.

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