a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

epresents the regulation mechanism of distribution and division in the existing
structure, in private sphere, it accompanies ethics as the main point of departure
underlying the question “how can I exist in public sphere?”.
In these definitions, consideration of the ways how problems are handled avails
for examination of plural meanings of justice lacking any adequate and concrete
definition 13 , whether any decision or behaviour is “just” or fair or not, and
comprehension of what the just conditions of “justice” are as expressed in this
examination. The problems experienced in liberal societies considered in West-centered
assessments and the ways these problems are discussed over in theories of justice carry
considerable importance for the theoretical framework.
2.2. Differentiations and Categorizations in Justice Theories
Some of the current justice approaches discussed today are as follows:
1. Robert Nozick and justice as liberty in the neo - liberal approach,
2. John Rawls and justice as fairness in the liberal approach,
3. Alaxdair MacIntyre and justice as a moral value in the communitarian approach,
4. Irıs Marion Young and justice as a cultural value in the Post-structuralist (cultural)
approach,
5. R.G. Peffer and justice as a production relation in the Marxist approach.
In the table below the differences and similarities between the theories are
generalized. 14 (See Table: 1)
These different justice approaches developed on the basis of social structure,
power relationships and economic relationships vary depending on the way they are
dealt with using the following criteria;
a: for whom they are intended / how man is defined and the way his class and social
relationships are handled,
b. which values are considered to be of top priority,
13 Akta links the problem of not running into any agreed definition although the history of thought is full
of efforts to define the concept of justice, to the fact that there exists no sphere of justice to be concretely
scrutinized (Akta ; 2001;pp.:183-184).
14 For these conceptual discussions the following resources have been referred to: Rawls, (1971) “A
Theory of Justice”; Hünler, (1997), “ ki adalet Arasında”,; Nozick (2000) (Anarchy, State and Utopia)
“Anar i, Devlet ve Ütopta”; Peffer, (2001) (Marxism, Morality and Social Justice) Marksizm, Ahlak ve
Sosyal Adalet; MacIntyre (2001) Eti in Kısa Tarihi; MacIntyre, (1988), “Whose Justice? Which
Rationality?”; Young, (1990) “Politics of Differences”.
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