Justice
Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (Sage Publications, 2013): 463-466.
4 Pages Posted: 26 Oct 2013
Date Written: September 24, 2013
Abstract
This short article surveys the different meanings of justice, starting with the distinction between procedural and substantive justice, and then exploring Aristotle's four categories of substantive justice: justice in rectification, justice in exchange (commutative justice), distributive justice, and political justice. It ends with a brief survey of four theories of justice: virtue-based, natural law, contractarian, and utilitarian.
Keywords: justice, rectification, exchange, distributive justice, political justice, theories of justice
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