JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS AS A FUNDAMENTAL SERBIAN IDEAL

Abstract

Ever since humanity became aware of itself, it dreams of a just society. Justice and fairness as ideals on which the social community should be organized have always occupied the attention of numerous thinkers and politicians. A large number of studies and books have been written about it, and there have been various attempts, which turned out to be utopian, to organize a just society. There are few states that have incorporated the principles of justice and freedom as basic value ideals into their foundations. There is not a single country in the world that dedicated its anthem to justice (God's justice) or, as the folk poet left a categorical imperative in the amenet of the Serbian race, "neither according to grandma nor according to uncles, but according to the justice of the True God". The intention of this paper is to provide insight into various theories of justice and fairness, and to point out the importance of these ideals for Serbian society.