Individual justice in Shi'ah school of thought

Abstract

In this essay, I discuss individual justice to illustrate the negative sovereignty of lust and cupidity of soul over intellectual faculty, and to show the manifestations of greediness of people in external world, in which they prioritize their appetite of eating and drinking, and their eagerness for possessing property-over rational demands. This unjust order is against what is supposed to be. In this explanation I use Islamic philosophy, ethics and jurisprudence as three fields of Islamic studies to determine justice in thought, justice of inner faculties and justly treatment of people in society because each of these three-thought, inner faculties and behaviours-determines part of justice. It seems that without individual justice it is impossible to achieve perfection and establish justice in society.

Keywords

• justice
• individual justice
• moderate states of inner faculties
• shi'ah
• natural order