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What is Justice?
-to be in the world who God is
-"the constant and firm will to give due to God and neighbor"
-giving each person what they deserve
What is Retributive Justice?
-a system of criminal justice whose goal is to allocate a punishment that is equal to the crime that was committed.
What 3 questions does Retributive Justice ask?
1. What laws have been broken
2. Who did it?
3. What do they deserve?
What is Rule of Law?
all people are accountable to the laws
What is Due process?
criminal justice follows order and procedure; the criminal has a hearing where the charges against him or her are publicly presented and a trial
What is Restorative Justice
-goal is to repair harm to victims while stressing accountability for the perpetrators.
What 5 questions does Restorative Justice ask?
1. Who has been hurt?
2. What do they need?
3. Whose obligations and responsibilities?
4. Who has a stake in the situation
5. What is the process that can involve the stakeholders in finding a solution?
What is social justice?
-How we apply the message of Christ to the world as it is
-Ensuring all types of justice are obeyed
Why are we unjust to each other?
-Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory
What did Rene Girard do?
-articulated mimetic theory, seeing a trend in relationships in classic literature
All desire is __________
mimetic
What does Mimetic mean?
-means imitation; think mimicry in nature
What does Mimetic theory say?
-Desire is mediated by a model. Basically, you want something because someone wanted it first
What is Mimetic Rivalry?
When there are limited resources (and there are), we start to see people as enemies, which leads to violence. Then, society will find a scapegoat.
What is the Nature of Mimetic Rivalry?
-fighting over resources and finding peace by finding someone else to point to.
What are some of the effects of Mimetic Rivalry?
-violence and scapegoating, people lose reason
-Ex. WWII and Jewish People, the Rwandan genocide
What is Mimetic theory in relation to Christ?
-All of christianity is imitation of Christ
-Christ is the scapegoat
-"They know not what they do"
What is solidarity?
"the intrinsic social nature of the human person, the equality of all in dignity and rights and the common path of individuals and peoples toward an ever more committed unity."
-standing with someone, being in communion with a person or group
Solidarity is __________ ___
Built-in
What must a compassionate person do?
-Think, speak, hear, see, trust their gut, have the heart of christ, and the hands and feet of christ
What is compassion as a virtue?
Justice
What is the fruit of solidarity?
-the elimination of margins
-the other becomes brother, and in this we learn to love the people in and for the differences we vilify. This is the elimination of the margins
What are margins?
boundaries that keep people on the outside
What is the personalist norm?
-the person is a good toward which the only proper and adequate attitude is love. -JPII
What is subsidiarity?
-The principle of Catholic social teaching that holds that a higher unit of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well (or better).
-approaching others through the lens of love
What are the levels of subsidiarity?
-world
-america
-states
-counties
-cities
-friends
-family
subsidiarity states that decisions should be made at the _________ level possible and the ___________ level necessary.
lowest, highest
If you want to change the world, change __________ first
yourself
How can you change yourself?
1. Change how you view those around you
2. change your approach to people
3. Become aware of injustice
4. Become an engine for positive change where you are ("small things, great love"
