The 18th-century philosopher Adam Smith is frequently described as the father of capitalism and is well known for praising what he called the market’s “invisible hand.” But he also developed complex ...

Liberation should be coming soon for Venezuela. After liberation will come celebration. Almost immediately should come justice. Punishing the culprits will be difficult, but it will be easier than ...

A few years ago, the Catholic public intellectual Michael Novak traveled to Poland to receive an award for his role in supporting the Solidarity movement of the 1980s. Standing with the Polish ...

Benevolence is the humanist virtue par excellence. Influential veil-of-ignorance theories of justice, issuing from the main streams of the humanist ethics of the Enlightenment, exclude benevolence ...

We usually situate the term “social justice” at the left end of the ideological spectrum. And that’s not surprising, since it’s a frequent theme of politicians and activists who present themselves as ...

Like many other developing countries, the problem of inadequacy of welfare measures and core social services in Pakistan frequently baffles policymakers. The imperfect functioning of market and ...

In this context, ‘Social Justice’ is a term placed between comparative and contractarian approaches contextualized in society where justice is conceptualised in abstract principles of jurisprudence ...