2. on sentient, chiefly human, beings; especially in certain
circumstances and relations, in which affections--which are hardly
virtues--prompt to kind services. Rules for the distribution of
Kindness are needed, 241-246
3. as claims may conflict; but clearly binding rules cannot be
obtained from Common Sense in a definite form; 246-247
4. nor clear principles from which rules may be deduced; as is
seen when we examine the duties to Kinsmen, as commonly
conceived: 247-250
5. and the wider duties of Neighbourhood, Citizenship, Universal
Benevolence; and the duties of cultivating Reverence and Loyalty: 250-254
6. and those springing from the Conjugal relation: 254-256
7. and those of Friendship: 256-259
8. and those of Gratitude: and those to which we are prompted by
Pity. 259-263
Note 263
CHAPTER V
JUSTICE
1. Justice is especially difficult to define. The Just cannot
be identified with the Legal, as laws may be unjust. Again, the
Justice of laws does not consist merely in the absence of
arbitrary inequality in framing or administering them. 264-268
2. One element of Justice seems to consist in the fulfilment of (1)
contracts and definite understandings, and (2) expectations arising
naturally out of the established order of Society; but the duty of
fulfilling these latter is somewhat indefinite: 268-271
3. and this social order may itself, from another point of view,
be condemned as unjust; that is, as tried by the standard of Ideal
Justice. What then is this Standard? We seem to find various
degrees and forms of it. 271-274
4. One view of Ideal Law states Freedom as its absolute End: but
the attempt to construct a system of law on this principle
involves us in insuperable difficulties. 274-278
5. Nor does the realisation of Freedom satisfy our common
conception of Ideal Justice. The principle of this is rather
‘that Desert should be requited.’ 278-283
6. But the application of this principle is again very perplexing:
whether we try to determine Good Desert (or the worth of
services), 283-290
7. or Ill Desert, in order to realise Criminal Justice. There
remains too the difficulty of reconciling Conservative and Ideal
Justice. 290-294
CHAPTER VI
LAWS AND PROMISES
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