Moral and Political Justice
Affirmative action is the nation’s most ambitious attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, the policy calls for minorities to be given special consideration in employment, education, and contracting decisions. Institutions with affirmative action policies generally set goals and timetables for increased diversity and use recruitment, set-asides and preference as ways of achieving those goals.Affirmative action is undoubtedly an issue of justice. From this point forward we’ll define justice as it is found in Merriam-Webster: the maintenance and administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims; the assignment of merited rewards or punishments. Furthermore, for the issue to be thoroughly understood we must approach it from both a moral and political perspective. What does it mean to be morally just… politically just? The discrepancy in definition will inevitably be displayed in their determination on the issue. The term “moral justice” suggests an abstract, idealistic system which bases its rulings on a universal code of morality and ethics
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Approximate Word count = 793
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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