From a pragmatic standpoint and living in a society in which various people from various cultural and religious backgrounds live I believe that many of the -ism you mentioned, along with several others, will help society a lot to allow us to live in peace with one another and are perfectly usefull as guidelines.
Ok, so here you say that pramatical justice allows us to live in peace with one another. Is this not the purpose of justice? What makes your religious justice more valid than pragmatism if they equally allow us to live in peace with one another? What do you believe is the fundamental purpose of justice?
Second, since various religions obviously have different tenants, do you believe that justice for people of different religions is fundamentally different?
Now another fair question, but here reality blurs the philosophical question.
The fact that many people claim to know the law of G/god(s) and that these laws vary in a sence does not mean that there is no God or that God cannot write and/or communicate a law.
The only solution appears to be special pleeding for one religion and that is what I would prefer to be doing, but not only on the basis of the law that goes with it, but also on internal consistency, experiential reality and other criteria which make it plausable.
This special pleeding would imply that one religion is very close to presenting this law and the others have eighter some distortion of this law, or have a human-made law which is being appealed to as if to a divine law.
The answer than is no, except when one is a polytheist and than you have just asked the Eutyphro question which noone can answer.
Do you believe that christianty is the religion about which you speak here?
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-Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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