Full Idea
It is the way that we behave in our dealings with other people that makes us just or unjust.
Gist of Idea
Justice concerns our behaviour in dealing with other people
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1103b16)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.92
A Reaction
This makes clear that 'justice' for the Greeks concerns what we think of as basic morality, rather than legal distribution of pleasure or pain. It will be the Greek word 'dikaiosuné', which is the main topic of Plato's 'Republic'.