principle of justice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprincipleandjustice
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principle
noun
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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justice
noun
uk/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
fairness in the way people are ...
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(Definition ofprincipleandjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Stakeholder consultation is part of the democratic process, embraces respect for persons, and is necessary for upholding theprincipleofjustice.
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Spencer'sprincipleofjusticeindicated that a poor law was unjust: relief of the poor was a matter for private beneficence, not a legitimate concern of government.
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Our conclusion is that theprincipleofjusticehas little or no influence on the student's developing professional identity.
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However, there is anotherprincipleofjusticethat challenges the humanitarian view.
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We agree that a world without such an operativeprincipleofjusticewould be an impoverished world indeed.
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But it does not follow from them that the application of any adequateprincipleofjusticemust be publicly checkable.
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The humanitarianprincipleofjusticedictates that we have a duty to give to each person according to his or her individual need.
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So the general notion here is aprincipleofjusticetightly and overtly grounded to equal and substantial respect.
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For example, some have proposed that the application of any adequateprincipleofjusticemust be publicly checkable.
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Merely stipulating that either version is aprincipleofjusticedoes not make it so.
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If this were not the case, (8) would not state a basicprincipleofjustice.
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Conceptual analysis in its modest role considers that the question about the resemblances and differences applying to the generalprincipleofjusticeis a substantive matter.
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This array of examples also serves as a challenge to the assumption that a consensus supports a singleprincipleofjusticein medicine and public health.
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In sum, policies adopted in the fall of 2001 suggest that emergency triage, public health research, and public health policy rely on more than a singleprincipleofjustice.
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This account of theprincipleofjusticeleaves much unsaid.
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But this reasoning is potentially fallacious: it does not follow from the fact that a principle is impracticable that it cannot be a correctprincipleofjustice.
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This suggests that the correct moral principle for the evaluation of the preemptive practices may be a principle of agreement, rather than some independentprincipleofjustice.
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Finally, theprincipleofjusticegenerates concerns about the donation and transplantation systems.
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As many more people require treatment than can be treated immediately, the ethicalprincipleofjustice(as fairness) is relevant in selecting those who will be treated.
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So, for example, he argues that the principle that people should be rewarded in accordance with desert is an inadequateprincipleofjusticesince impracticable to implement.
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Within each form of justice, theorists have devoted significant energy to defining what types of luck must be negated to assure fair operation of theprincipleofjustice.
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