What Makes A Just Society

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The challenge is to describe what I would include in a “just society”. Most would find that an easy thing to describe given all the misery and injustice that is commonly displayed daily in countless ways across the globe. Though, philosophically, one would have to give thought to many considerations in regards to numerous variables and conditions that society is currently in the grips of. Conversely, I would be hard pressed to put into three paged what I feel would make a “just society”. This would be due to the fact that, I am in the process of enlightenment of my own consciousness through the teachings of Buddhism and the “power of attraction”, directing my own positive thoughts into the airwaves of the connection, that we should all be able to tap into, that I have …show more content…

The emphasis is on the human being and the here-and-now. The origin of morality/ethics is the human society without reference to any metaphysical or spiritual source. It is the society that determines the uniqueness of human beings. One can be morally upright without necessarily being religious. Humanist ethics relies on reason and modern scientific method and does not have faith in prayer, divine revelation or a supernatural God for the solution of ethical or other problems.Unlike the ethics of Christianity and the Traditional religions, Humanist ethics is based on happiness in this one and only life and not concerned with a supernatural realm,immortality and the glory of God. Humanism denies the philosophical and psychological dualism of soul and body and contends that a human being is a oneness of mind, personality and physical organism. Consequently, Integrative Humanism is a theory that is comprised of principles that are the guidelines to practicing this as a society. Conversely, this theory has the basic principle of what a “just society” would represent in my vision. It is comprised of the concept of good, right, responsibility, and

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