a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

c. how the procedures are explained,
d. what kind of tools are used to identify the institutions in relation to their
implementations and principles.
As a result, there is no concept of justice or theory that can be used in common.
Yet, each justice conceptualization handles and develops an integration of different
production relations, and social structure through an assessment of the above parameters
and thus suggests different solutions. In such a case, the <strong>evaluation</strong> is to be done by
taking into account the definition of the limitations and possibilities of social
relationships rather than the superiority of one concept to another. In spite of this fact, it
is possible to say which one is more implacable in our modern life institutions with
appraising conceptional details. So these theories above mentioned will be examined.
Some of the contents, aims and approaches on which these justice theories are
based can be classified under the following sub-titles.
2.2.1. Justice as Liberty in the Neo-Liberal Approach
In his study which is named as Anarchy, State and Utopia (Anar i, Devlet ve
Ütopya), Nozick, acknowledged as the representative of the neo-liberal approach,
defines the “minimal state” as the best tool of a well-ordered society, basing his
definition on individual rights and liberties. Any social sacrifice intended to restrict
liberties and any state that would regulate such a sacrifice would be completely
unacceptable. In parallel to this approach today walfare state is accepted unnecessary,
too. According to Nozick, individuals of the “minimal state” are not to be used as tools,
means, materials or sources. He claims that these individuals, whose rights have not
been violated, are not tools but goals on their own (Nozick, 2000, 414).
Nozick, handles inequalities not in terms of outcomes but with respect to
process. In this sense, a regulation that does not violate individualistic rights and thus
does not render the individual secondary in and for the society is the most legitimate
structure for a just social order. The “minimal state” will make this structure possible.
Accordingly, individualistic property rights are just only if they are obtained not by
force or trick but honestly and openly. Property rights are to be obtained through
individualistic efforts. And the main task of the minimal state is to prevent the violation
of individualistic rights. Nozick assumes that social regulation done by placing the
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