ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE

Justice embraces the whole of morality. It is considered to be the principal virtue and a source of all others. Justice is the common name of all forms of merit. The main task of the science of morals or ethics is to train one to use reason to see the difference between right and wrong, between the just and the unjust, a distinction on which the whole science of good and evil rests. Thus justice, which on the one hand is one virtue among others, on the other embraces the whole o f morality. For Proudhon ‘justice, under various names, governs the world—nature and humanity, scierice and conscience, logic and morals, political economy, politics, history, literature and art. Justice is that which is most primitive in the human soul, most fundamental in society, most sacred among ideas and what the masses demand today with utmost ardour.’