POLS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Distributive Justice, Eudaimonia, Eye For An Eye
6 Oct 2020
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The just person is the one who lives according to rightly framed law". Laws aim at the common advantage" and produce and preserve happiness [eudaimonia] This is justice in the wide sense: it is complete virtue virtue entire. ". Suppose you are a law-abiding person, just in the wide sense". You could still act in unfair ways. To distinguish, aristotle designates questions of fairness or unfairness matters of particular justice. Distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution". Puzzle: aristotle thinks distributive justice" preserves equality, even though the shares distributed to each member may be different. Distribution of shares should be proportional according to merit". Aristotle accepts that there are differences in merit - some. Differences is always the same ratio=twice the smaller) Rectificatory justice (aka commutative justice" or corrective justice") Justice in transactions between man and man".
