4   What is social justice?

Social justice is sometimes called the justice of the common good. It demands proportionate share in the fruits of economic cooperation and equitable distribution of the wealth of a nation among different social classes. It also imposes obligations of mutual relation on different social groups, e.g., the better to assist the poor so that they can live in a manner worthy of human beings. Social justice condemns such situations as "excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples" (GS, 29), the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, and excessive profits. 

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