HUMA 1825 Lecture : HUMA 1825 Tutorial Note 3

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What is the difference between justice and injustice. Huma 1825 tutorial note: knowing in the other person; the just is able to evaluate that, and to decide what those people deserve. Justice is the sort of characteristic on the basis of which people are disposed to do just things on the basis of which they act justly and wish for just things. It"s the same way also concerning injustice that it is that on the basis of which people are unjust and wish for unjust things: it"s a desire for everyone to be virtuous. Arithmetic equality v. proportional reciprocity: arithmetic equality makes the loss and gains same . The just in transactions is a certain equality. The unjust, a certain inequality, yet not in accord with the proportion, but in accord with an arithmetic one. For it makes no difference at all between who robs whom.