Ethics Week 15
Ethics Week 15
Ethics Week 15
and Justice
Framework
Teacher A
teaches her students
less than the number
of hours expected each
week.
Teacher B
teaches his students
exactly in the number
of hours expected per
week.
Teacher C
teaches her students as
expected and tutors
them outside her
teaching hours.
A B C
Who among the
3 teachers do –
•an act of
injustice?
•an act of
justice?
•an act of love?
Discussion
The Principle of Love
ἔρως (érōs)
Eros
- is physical love or
sexual desire. Eros is
the type of love that
involves passion, lust,
and/or romance.
ϕιλία (philía)
Philia
- is affectionate
love. Philia is the type
of love that involves
friendship.
ἀγάπη (agápē)
Agape
- is often defined
as unconditional,
sacrificial love.
Agape is the love
principle preached by
Jesus Christ.
Agape is “willing the
good of another”
Joseph Francis Fletcher
(1905-1991)
• Agapeic love is absolute
norm, the absolute
framework for the
determination of the
right thing to do or
wrong to avoid.
• In moral reasoning , it is
asked, is it an act of
loving?
Fr. Bernard Haring
•Advocate of ethics of
personalism
•“the heart of moral life is
charity to one’s
neighbor.”
Justice and Fairness:
Promoting the Common
Good as a Moral Framework
A. Social Justice
Social justice
is equal access
to wealth,
opportunities,
and privileges
within society.
In ordinary political discourse, the “common good” refers to
those facilities-whether material, cultural or institutional-that
the members of the community provide to all members in
order to fulfill a relational obligation they all have to care for
certain interest that they have in common.
Some canonical examples of the common good
in a modern liberal democracy include:
• Museum and
Cultural
Institutions
• Public
Transportation
• Civil Liberties
(freedom of speech and the
freedom of association)
Some canonical examples of the common good
in a modern liberal democracy include:
• The system of
Property
• Clean Air and Clean
Water
• National Defense
Plato - justice means
giving what is due by
doing one’s own function.
•Craftsmen
•Soldiers
•Rulers/Guardians
Craftsmen should be
temperant in all aspects of
their lives, temperant in
acquiring, using and
keeping their wealth;
temperant in their
ambition.
A soldier is just when he
does his job, providing
security to the people with
courage.
A guardian is a philosopher
king. He possesses all the
virtues of temperance, courage
and wisdom. He has the duty of
wisely studying and identifying
solutions to the problems of
peace and order, equitable
distribution of wealth, etc.
B. Justice as the Minimum
Demand for Love