Volume 24, 2017
Naomi Zack

Pages 79-95
https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview2017679
Starting from Injustice
Justice, Applicative Justice, and Injustice Theory
Political philosophers have traditionally focused on justice and regarded equality as an ideal despite its lack of factual support; normative universal human equality is a new, twentieth-century regulative moral construct. The theoretical focus on justice overlooks what most people care about in reality〞injustice. In modern democratic society, formal or legal equality now co-exists with real inequality. One reason is that justice is not applied to all groups in society and applicative justice每每applying justice to those who don*t now receive it每每is a remedy. But injustice theory also includes other forms of injustice such as legal, humanitarian, and injustice without blame or responsibility.