Exploring the Link of Action to Justice: A Review

Abstract

The write-up attempts to develop a conceptual and theoretical framework on the theme of human action, and successively links it with the actions of justice as a subset of a plethora of actions called governance in a nation. It is devoted to a survey of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary literature on private and public human conducts. Such a survey is warranted so as to elaborate the assertion to the effect that uprightness and justice are actions – the effectuations of enterprises of the human executions. There are conceptualisations of justice and theoretical approaches to it. The thinking, deliberations and making of judgements and policy are but antecedent and precedent to justice, and not as such justice as it is the act and doing of uprightness and propriety that constitute justice proper. Both doing and undoing are human actions and conducts in the society. To act towards the action of uprightness and fairness is to accomplish a set of valued hybrid accomplishments and performances in terms of doing and undoing of something that is valued morally, equitably and legitimately by all. The narrative of the paper begins with the literature on the themes of ordinary human action in general and other specific practices in particular. It is argued that an act of propriety and equity is at the least the specific ordinary, moral, egalitarian and legitimate deeds and accomplishments of the citizenry and public functionaries of the government. The paper concludes that these are such conducts and action-endeavours that constitute justice.