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What Is Social Justice?

$5.95
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9780879464644
Publish Date:
April 2011
Paperback:
60 pages
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Words do, indeed, matter. Especially when the words are social justice, one of the most misunderstood, maligned, and difficult terms in the lexicon of both religious and secular life. In this little booklet, Bill Droel tries to put some flesh on the bones of what we actually mean by social justice and how and when we actually exercise it. He distinguishes social justice from charity, as well as from distributive justice and commutative justice. His chapters include:
  • Social Justice as a Virtue
  • Insiders and Outsiders
  • Organizing for Social Justice
  • Traits of the Virtue
"What we know for sure is that love unattached to justice results in sentimentality and thus deprives its beneficiaries of freedom. Yet justice unattached to love results in legalism and paternalism and leaves its participants without mercy. This contrast is helpful in our quest to understand: What is social justice? The contrast suggests that the term social justice, though frequently used as a catch-all term for doing good, is actually a unique kind of activity."
—from the Introduction

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