"Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give everyone his due."
Tim Send a noteboard - 13/06/2010 04:08:26 PM
Institutes of Justinian, I.1 pr.
Circularity ftw.
More seriously, I think justice is a balancing act between morality and consistency. Morality, of course, is subjective to an extent, and consistency is probably more subjective than a lot of people think. Which is why no-one has ever satisfactorily defined justice (nor probably ever will).
A more useful and wiser Latin saying, I think, is omnis definitio in jure periculosa est.
Circularity ftw.
More seriously, I think justice is a balancing act between morality and consistency. Morality, of course, is subjective to an extent, and consistency is probably more subjective than a lot of people think. Which is why no-one has ever satisfactorily defined justice (nor probably ever will).
A more useful and wiser Latin saying, I think, is omnis definitio in jure periculosa est.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
What is justice?
- 13/06/2010 03:39:12 PM
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"Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give everyone his due."
- 13/06/2010 04:08:26 PM
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Do you think there is something called justice?
- 13/06/2010 10:54:18 PM
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Well, obviously not with an existence independent of the human mind.
- 13/06/2010 11:07:38 PM
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Actually, that is being "just" not justice *NM*
- 14/06/2010 05:46:06 AM
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The original reads, "Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuens".
- 14/06/2010 01:37:10 PM
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Obviously it's a present active participle. 
- 15/06/2010 12:09:54 AM
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- 15/06/2010 12:09:54 AM
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Precisely. As in the well-known Latin phrase iustitio pauperem puerum; nullum corpus me amat.
- 15/06/2010 08:54:59 AM
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*NM*
To me? "Giving to each what is reasonably owed when it's reasonably possible"
- 13/06/2010 04:22:41 PM
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An attempt to answer
- 13/06/2010 09:54:03 PM
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You say that the basis of all justice is the law...
- 13/06/2010 10:51:13 PM
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Good question
- 13/06/2010 11:05:26 PM
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I'm an atheist, but stay with me here
- 13/06/2010 11:17:10 PM
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I'm a christian, but stay with me here
- 13/06/2010 11:40:48 PM
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That was moderatly obnoxious
- 14/06/2010 12:52:48 AM
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Great Question
- 14/06/2010 06:16:23 AM
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