The Theory of Justice as Fairness In Khwaja Nasiruddin Tusi’s Though

In twentieth century, we see ‘considering justice as fairness’ as a moral theory with foundations of contractualism. In this regard, we have identified the theory of justice as fairness through the method of discourse analysis from Khwaja Nasir’s thoughts. In his view, the universe and the social life have formed on the basis of divine justice (i.e. divine laws in the system of genesis and legislation), and its lasting is due to affection. However, when innate affection is lacking, the need to constructing justice as fairness for doing people’s interactions by Imam becomes necessary so that the foundationalist (religious) morality may be created. Khwaja Nasir’s discourse of justice as fairness has been articulated as the Shiite’s moral discourse. And the central denotation of the discourse, i.e. the ‘divine justice’, serves as the origin of the laws and contracts, which give meaning to ‘religious morality’ by attracting the floating denotations of ‘innate affection’ and ‘man-made artificial justice and morality’ (Imam or the prime head of Medina) from the sphere of discourse-likeness. It seeks to make the discourse of ‘justice as fairness’ hegemonic in his utopia.