Love and Justice Framework: Fletcher's Ethics of Love

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three well-known concepts of love originating from the greeks

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agape (charity), erotic (passionate sexual encounter), and philia (affection between friends.)

Question 2

Love as a moral framework is the

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agapeic.

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“willing the good of another. ” It is the act of sharing, or giving more than what is just.

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agape

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The Principle of Love

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In Joseph Fletcher’s situation ethics, agapeic love is absolute norm, the absolute framework for the determination of the right thing to do or wrong to avoid. In moral reasoning, it is asked, is it an act of loving?

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Is equal access to wealth, opportunities, and privileges within society. Hence, promotion of social justice is equivalent to promotion of the common good. It may be also said that promotion of the common good is promotion of social justice.

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Social Justice

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In political discourse, the “common good” refers to those
facilities (material, cultural, or institutional) that the
members of a community provide to all members in
order to fulfill a relational obligation they all have to care
for certain interests that they have in common.

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Social Justice

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Additionally for Plato, justice means

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giving what is due by doing one’s own function.

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referred to justice as “the minimum demand of love.”

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William Luijpen

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Which means that love is more, gives more than what is just.

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Justice as the Minimum Demand of Love

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Justice that is concerned with the distribution or allotment of goods, duties, and privileges in concert with the merits of individuals, and the best interests of society.

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Distributive Justice

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JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS:
Promoting the Common Good as a Moral Framework

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a. Social Justice
b. Justice as the Minimum Demand of Love
c. Distributive Justice

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Features of Distributive Justice

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1.Egalitarianism
2.Capitalist and Free-market System
3.Socialists
4.Taxation
5.Protection and Preservation of Public Welfare
6.Property of Public Use

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The doctrine of political and social equality. “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the law.”

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Egalitarianism

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Let the law of demand and supply follow its course. Ideally it is a self-regulation process. It lets any excess of demand be regulated by the limits of supply, and lets any excess of supply be regulated by the limits of demand.

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Capitalist and Free-market System

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Follow the rule, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This requires collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange with the aim of operating for use rather than for profit.

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Socialists

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Is government’s getting a part of what its people earn in order to have money to spend for public services, operating and maintaining public places or properties, for people’s use.

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Taxation

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The government has constitution-granted power to govern, to make, adopt and enforce laws for the protection and preservation of public health, justice, morals, order, safety and security and welfare.

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Protection and Preservation of Public Welfare

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Citizen’s ownership of property is not absolute. The government has a Constitution-granted power to take private property for public use with just compensation.

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Property of Public Use

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JUSTICE AS MORAL FRAMEWORK, BE IT SOCIAL OR DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE, STATES THAT

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WHATEVER PROMOTES JUSTICE IS THE MORALLY RIGHT THING TO DO.

Question 20

The rightness or wrongness of action and the goodness or badness of character or trait is a function of (meaning it depends on) not only the end, object, or consequences of applying a rule (rule utilitarianism) or doing an act (act utilitarianism), but also other bases like one’s sense of duty and good will (rule or act deontology).

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THE BETTER MORAL FRAMEWORK: Gamer and Rosen’s Synthesis