Justice: A Salient Virtue of Social Institutions

Justice is an area of research and the subject of theoretical works, just like the categories of truth, beauty and rationality. Apart from some more general remarks on justice, the present text concentrates on issues of justice considered from the point of view of the interests and theoretical achievements of economics, and also on the problem of territorial justice. To the question: What is territorial justice?, I propose the following answer: Territorial justice is a form of social justice that, apart from the basic features of that notion, in relation to individuals and social groups takes into account their spatial circumstances, treating space (territory) as a potential and real-term barrier to accessing the principles of justice.