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Distributive justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (300 words) |
 | Distributive justice concerns what is just or right with respect to the allocation of goods (or utility) in a society. |
| Distributive justice concentrates on just outcomes, while procedural justice concentrates on just processes. |
| The most prominent contemporary theorists of distributive justice are John Rawls and Robert Nozick. |
| Thomas Aquinas: Commutative and Distributive Justice (2650 words) |
| Distributive and commutative justice differ not only in respect of unity and multitude, but also in respect of different kinds of due: because common property is due to an individual in one way, and his personal property in another way. |
| Hence in distributive justice the mean is observed, not according to equality between thing and thing, but according to proportion between things and persons: in such a way that even as one person surpasses another, so that which is given to one person surpasses that which is allotted to another. |
| Further, the distribution that has to do with distributive justice is one of "wealth or of honors, or of whatever can be distributed among the members of the community", which very things are the subject matter of commutations between one person and another, and this belongs to commutative justice. |
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