a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

than the whole world. Peffer constitutes his principle contrary on these points (Peffer,
2001: 365-370).
2.2.6. General Evaluation of the Theories
These differences notwithstanding, two different ways of handling can be
mentioned to guide us in the classification of justice theories as to how to evaluate the
inequalities of the current time.
economy:
The distributional justice theories handled with an approach of political
Theories developed upon the recognition of the fact that rights, liberty, interest
and responsibilities can be rationally defined and it is quite possible to realize a rational
distribution of social benefits and burdens within a distributional mechanism. In this
perspective, the fundamental issue is how they should be distributed. After the
determination of inequalities in the distributional relations, solutions have been
investigated as to the procedural elimination of these inequalities.
The justice theories handled with a cultural and ethical values approach:
Approaches that find the economic-based concept of justice inadequate and
stress that cultural and ethical value are and should be in the justice context. Generally
speaking in these approaches differences are emphasized, the universal validity of
values are criticized and different conceptualizations of justice and rationalizations are
pronounced. Studies that disclose these differences and inequalities with such variants
as race, sex and micro power terrains have been carried out. Rather pluralistic
<strong>evaluation</strong>s take place in this terrain ranging from liberal pluralistic discourse to radical
democracy and collaborative approaches.
General <strong>evaluation</strong>: Though they are dealt with in this generalization, each of
these approaches that discuss such concepts as virtue, liberty, equality, fairness, interest
and needs, shows that there is no single system of justice principles and no single
comprehensive justice concept. But one of them, developed by Rawls, is more
implicable so, have been commonly discussed today. In the following section these
basic concepts will be examined in detail.
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