Justice is a multifaceted, complex and important concept. For many years, psychologists have been trying to figure out what are the main characteristics that a modern person endows with her.
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Consider the long-term psychological research in the field of social categorization, according to which it was concluded that people use categories when perceiving and evaluating a person or inanimate object. For example, when meeting a person, they often try to attribute him to one of the categories, for example, “redheads”, “scientists”, etc., endowing him with the qualities of this selected category regardless of his real abilities. So, if at a meeting you were suddenly categorized as “red”, then you are most likely cunning and quite active.
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Note that the process of perceiving events and concepts occurs in a similar way. Only in this case, typification is not carried out on human qualities and characteristics, but on their characteristics. Understanding justice and injustice is no exception.
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To realize what justice is, a person, based on accepted norms, uses concepts associated with justice and injustice, and general characteristics that distinguish fair events. Often people in their understanding rely on real events and summing up people based on fair norms.
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When forming your own opinion about this concept, keep in mind that, according to the results of psychological research, there are three qualitatively different ideas. The first opinion is based on a law that requires unconditional execution. Here, most often, such stable concepts appear as “honesty and morality”, “law and order”, etc. In this case, justice is the basis for human actions.
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In the second case, justice is associated with mercy, care, hope, and assistance. It emphasizes caring and respectful attitude to a person, the fulfillment of his desires and the achievement of happiness. At the heart of the third view is objective knowledge. Justice is associated with the presence of a single truth that contributes to the fateful and inevitable changes in human life.
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Interestingly, in trying to define justice, people emphasize its moral and legal components much more strongly in the real life of society, in the search and operation of truth. Moreover, they assign her a more modest role in interpersonal relationships.