Where did the term "Social Justice" come from?

Posted: 2017-02-26

Social justice is a new term. It first appeared in the middle of the nineteenth century, achieved its widest intellectual popularity in the post-war decade, and has already begun to disappear from all but Catholic usage.

The common good disappeared 
and its place was taken by such constructions as the utilitarian 
"greatest good of the greatest number". Belief in responsibility to 
the social group nearly disappeared. The harmful effects of this 
anarchism appeared first in the economic sphere, where individual 
freedom had not required throwing off any old yoke but only not 
submitting to any new ones. It was not long until desperate con- 
ditions of poverty and inequality had brought forth criticism in 
the name of justice. 

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