Justice (Dikaiosyne / Justitia) — For Plato, justice in the soul is the harmony between reason, spirit, and appetite; in the city, it is each part fulfilling its function. For Aristotle, justice is the virtue that orders relations with others: distributive justice (geometric proportion) and corrective justice (arithmetic proportion). In Modernity: Hobbes (justice as observance of the social contract), Locke (natural rights), Rawls (A Theory of Justice, 1971): principles chosen from behind a “veil of ignorance.”
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