Roosevelt and Social Justice
In: The review of politics, Band 7, S. 297
ISSN: 0034-6705
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In: The review of politics, Band 7, S. 297
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 297-305
ISSN: 1748-6858
Social justice is that form of justice which impels men to promote the common good; that is, the welfare of the community as such, as a unified entity, and also the common good as comprising the welfare of all members of society. This was the meaning attached to the term by Pope Pius XI. In Atheistic Communism he declared: "It is impossible to care for the social organism and the good of society as a unit unless each single part and each individual member… is supplied with all that is necessary for the exercise of his social functions."
In: The review of politics, Band 16, S. 438
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: Review of social economy: the journal for the Association for Social Economics, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 55-59
ISSN: 1470-1162
In: The review of politics, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 438-451
ISSN: 1748-6858
A friend of mine has the misfortune of owning a number of stone cottages. I say "misfortune" because the cottages are in Scotland, and their rents are fixed at the level of 1914. The cottages were built long before 1914—some of them are eighteenth-century work, with their pantiled roofs and trick rubble walls and irregular little windows; but they are good to look upon still, with their white door-sills and their little gardens along the path to the road. The law compels my friend to keep them in tolerable repair, if they are tenanted, and to pay most of what rent he receives either to local authorities or to the Exchequer, in the form of rates and income-taxes. But the rent of each cottage amounts to a mere five shillings a week—seventy cents, at the present rate of exchange. This is not particularly depressing to my friend, for the rents of his farms are fixed at levels no higher than they were during the Napoleonic wars, let alone the First World War. The cottages are a cause of expense to him, of course, rather than a source of income; but persons of his station are now resigned to being ruined, and for some of his cottages he asks no rent at all, letting them to old people who can afford to pay next to nothing. Some of his tenants, however, are better off, according to their lights, than my friend himself: they have risen in the economic scale while he has descended. His income is still much greater than theirs, but his expenses are much greater, and his responsibilities. These tenants now have better wages and shorter hours than ever they did before; they can afford their little luxuries, extending sometimes to television-sets. Some of them have come to look upon rent as a luxury—for, after all, many of their neighbors are the recipients of my friend's charity, paying nothing for their cottages. Accordingly, my friend's agent occasionally has his difficulties when he goes from door to door, on Mondays, collecting five shillings here and five shillings there. One morning the agent knocked at the door of a tenant who was in good health and employed at good wages. The tenant came to the door and announced that he had decided to pay no more rent; he could not afford it; prices were high, and he could use that five shillings himself.
In: Review of social economy: the journal for the Association for Social Economics, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 89-108
ISSN: 1470-1162
In: The review of politics, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 140
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The Middle East journal, Band 8, S. 225
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: Far Eastern survey, Band 24, Heft 8, S. 124-128
In: Review of social economy: the journal for the Association for Social Economics, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 34-50
ISSN: 1470-1162
In: The world today, Band 8, S. 148-162
ISSN: 0043-9134
In: The review of politics, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 136-139
ISSN: 1748-6858
In: The review of politics, Band 19, S. 136
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: Review of social economy: the journal for the Association for Social Economics, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 1-8
ISSN: 1470-1162
In: American political science review, Band 57, Heft 2, S. 464-464
ISSN: 1537-5943