Ethics of justice

Ethics of justice

Ethics of justice, also know as morality of justice, is the term used by Carol Gilligan in "In a Different Voice" to describe the ethics and moral reasoning common to men and preferred by Kohlberg's stages of moral development. The ethics of justice deals with moral choices through a measure of rights of the people involved and chooses the solution that seems to damage the least number of people. Rooted in a respect for the legal systemFact|date=April 2007, it applies in the Western democracy ideas like social contract theory to everyday moral decisions.


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