Beyond Aristotelian Justice

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Beyond Aristotelian and even Liberal Democratic views, the Catholic church believes justice needs to be with compassion. Aristotle believed that a criminal should be punished “in proportion to the harm they’ve done to the public welfare” (Groome 212). This is also the view of the United States has when approaching justice. The Catholic church believes that justice needs to be served with compassion because one of Gods greatest commandments was love. The Hebrew Bible focused on justice as a mandate of “the divine-human covenant” (Groome 215). The Hebrews mandate justice because they believe that God wants the best for all. “Hebrew scripture scholar Walter Brueggemann summarizes, ‘In biblical faith, the doing of justice is the primary expectation