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    Justice, understood as the rules governing human intercou... — Carmelics
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    Justice, understood as the rules governing human intercourse, is grounded in the need to avoid distress.

    Justice & PunishmentSocial Contract
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    • 1.Justice is a contract among humans to avoid suffering harm from one another.
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    • 2.Injustice produces fear and distress in the wrongdoer.
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    • 3.Avoiding distress is the fundamental motivation in Epicurean moral psychology.
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    • 1.Plato's Republic demonstrates that justice is a functional harmony of soul and city, not a contractual instrument for pain-avoidance.
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    • 2.If justice were merely distress-avoidance, the perfectly unjust man who escapes detection would have no reason to be just, contradicting our firm moral intuitions.
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    • 1.Kant argues that justice is grounded in respect for rational autonomy, making its authority categorical and independent of any contingent desires including distress.
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    • 2.A distress-based account makes justice merely instrumental, but Kant's Formula of Humanity forbids treating persons as means, a constraint that holds even when injustice would produce no distress.
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    At this point, we can see that Epicurus has so refined the account of pleasure and pain that he is able to tie them to virtue. In the Letter to Menoeceus, he claims, as a truth for which he does not argue, that virtue and pleasure are inseparable and that living a prudent, honorable, and just life is the necessary and sufficient means to the pleasure that is the end of life (132). An example of what he might mean is found in Principal Doctrines, where Epicurus holds that justice is a contract am
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