Unit 2 Social Justice

What is a right?

That to which someone has a just claim.

What is justice? 1

Moral virtue that consists of the constant and firm will to give what is due to God and neighbor. Trying to change what makes charity necessary.

Why is justice considered a virtue?

Because it is primarily about the intention to be in a right relationship with others by giving them what is due.

What is distributive justice?

It’s what any community or social organization, as a whole, owes to its individual members.

What is the Golden Rule

Due unto others what you would want them done unto you.

What is the rule of law?

Principle that governments should function according to duly established processes and not at whim of the person in authority.

What is legal justice?

Each person owes in fairness to the community such as obeying just laws and respecting legitimate authority.

Why do just laws establish proper social order?

Because just civil law corresponds to the right reason and is derived to the eternal law of God.

What is civil law?

Rule of conduct established by legitimate human authority.

What is anarchy?

A state of lawlessness

What is moral law?

The common good fatherly instruction of God

What is commutative justice?

It is the regulation of exchange between persons and institutions, in accordance, with a strict respect for their rights. Obligates both parties and is contractual.

What is a contract?

Legally binding agreements between 2 or more parties that can be dissolved once conditions are met or not, or upon mutual agreement

Who was St. Martin de Porres

He was of mixed race background, which prevented him from being a Dominican priest, but he later fulfilled the dream of becoming a Dominican.

What is economic justice?

Pertains exclusively to the moral obligations of individual business and governments associated with economic life.

What is a covenant?

Is a sacred bond between God and His people

What is social justice?

Responsibility of each member of society to respect the dignity of every human being, and the rights that which flow from that dignity

What is socialism

It is an economical and political philosophy that the means of production, distribution, and exchange is owned by the centralized government.

What is Marxism?

Social theory of Karl Marx where the perfect society is one with the worker’s control the means of production. All property is held in common with each contributing according to their ability and receiving according to their needs. It is Godless.

What is temporal welfare?

The good pertaining to this earth, as opposed to the good pertaining to Heaven or eternity.

Who was Karl Marx?

Karl Marx was an active political, economic, and socialist, who argued that all history is a history of class struggle.

Why is social justice widely misunderstood in today’s society?

People wrongly believe that social justice refers to a socialist economic order that abolishes private property and places the ownership and control of wealth in the hands of the government.

How do justice and charity relate to each other?

Justice is what is owed to people, and charity is what is given out of love to help for the moment. Justice is what makes charity necessary.

What is justice? 2

Justice compels us to render what is owed to others

What is divine revelation?

God’s communication of Himself, by which he makes know the mystery of his divine plan

What is reason?

It’s the power of the mind or the intellect to know and understand through the process of logic.

What is social responsibility?

Obligation of justice and charity that individuals owe to other members of society.

What is Jesus’ main message in the Sermon on the Mount?

Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ definitive teaching on the just order of love within the human heart. In the Sermon, we are given the Beatitudes. He also teaches us how to order the affections and passions of the human heart so that we may love God and our neighbor.

What does freedom mean?

The power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, and so to perform deliberate actions of one’s own freedom; it attains perfection when it is directed toward God.

How did the prophets of the Old Testament uphold the value of justice?

They spoke about the rules that would uphold God’s law

What is sin?

A deliberate offense against God. It can be a thought word or deed or omission of action.

What is practical reason?

It is the deliberate reflection by which we freely discern which actions are for the good of our nature.

What is basis of human freedom?

Capacity to distinguish between good and evil and then choose the good, which is the basis of human freedom.

Who was St. Katharine Drexel?

Best known for opening schools, to allow people who aren’t educated to learn.

What does Scripture say about charity?

It tells us we are commanded to love as a free choice and not a feeling

What is the hierarchy of goods?

It is the right ordering of our affections. So not all good things are equal, some are better than others.

What did Jesus teach us in the Last Judgment?

Will reveal God’s judge mental triumph over all the injustices committed by man. God’s love is stronger than death.

What is an encyclical?

Pastoral letter written by Pope, sent to the whole church to express teachings on some important matter