Single Idea 23556

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice]

Full Idea

Beside universal justice there is particular justice, with the same name. ...Particular injustice concerns honour or money or security, and is actuated by the pleasure that the advantage offers, but universal justice has the same field as the good man.

Gist of Idea

Particular justice concerns specific temptations, but universal justice concerns the whole character

Source

Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1130b01)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.175


A Reaction

Miranda Fricker finds this distinction in testimonial justice, and implies that most virtues divide in this way.