Aristotle Book V Handout

What is the virtue that necessarily involves the good of others?

Aristotle believes that there is one virtue that necessarily involves the good of others; justice the most virtuous person is the just person

According to Aristotle, what do we mean by unjust?

One who breaks the law and one who acts unfairly ( takes advantage of another)

What does it mean to act unfairly?

An unjust person take more than his/her share of something good and an unjust person take less of his/her share or something bad

For Aristotle, what is a just person?

The just person is fair The just person is law abiding

What are the two kinds of particular justice? What are examples of each? What important features of each kind of justice did we discuss?

distributive justice: the justice that governs the distribution of goods and services example:taxation,minimum wages laws and important features is it use geometric proportion Rectificatory (or corrective) Justice: the justice that rectifies (corrects) the conditions of an action example: punishing someone who steals corrects a wrong. An important feature is it attempts to restore proper proportion;it takes away an unjust gain #