![]() ![]() The main discussion is taken up with distinguishing three kind of particular justice : justice in the more specific senses of fair dealing, which covers distributive justice, corrective justice, and justice in exchange. Aristotle attaches slight philosophical significance to this interpretation - after all, the laws may not be just by the criteria of justice as moral virtue (NE V.1129b11-1130a13). No-one else need be part of the situation.Īristotle spends little time on this sense of 'justice', though he does add that justice in this wide sense can be given a juridical interpretation : the just person is the person who acts according to the laws of the polis (state : better 'city-state') - the law-abiding person. I can be courageous ( andreios) in facing a wild beast I can be temperate ( sophron) by keeping all my appetites in moderation. The just person is the holos spoudaios (1129a26 ff.), the completely good person in their dealings with others.Īs a social virtue in this sense justice ( diaiosune) contrasts with virtues such as temperance (sophrosune) and courage ( andreia), which are individual virtues in that their exercise does not necessarily involve other people. This equates justice with complete virtue but not absolutely, only 'in relation to somebody else' (NE, V, 1129b27-8). ![]() In Nicomachean Ethics ('NE') V, Aristotle first distinguishes what is usually translated as universal justice. ![]()
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