Social Justice: History, Purpose and Meaning

Alone and Without Purpose: Life Loses Meaning Following Social Exclusion.

Four studies (N = 643) supported the hypothesis that social exclusion would reduce the global perception of life as meaningful. Social exclusion was manipulated experimentally by having a confederate refuse to meet participants after seeing their videotaped introduction (Study 1) and by ostracizing participants in a computerized ball-tossing game (Study 2). Compared to control condition and acc...

The neuroscience of purpose, meaning, and morals

One process to which ‘purpose’ can refer is that genes are self-replicating. Another process to which ‘purpose’ can apply is that genes set some of the goals for actions. These goals are fundamental to understanding emotion. Another process to which ‘purpose’ can apply is that syntactic multistep reasoning provides a route for goals to be set that are to the advantage of the individual, the phe...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Engineering and Social Justice

Health and social justice.

Theories of social justice applied to health care have typically focused on justifying health care (medicine and public health) as a special social good. Rationalizing greater equality in health care is typically the point of departure for most approaches to medical ethics, even those that include health assessment. In general, these approaches have paid relatively little attention to universal...