Justice in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics

Abstract

What is the relation between Aristotle's accounts of justice in his Ethics and Politics? In line with Aristotle's encompassing understanding of the study of politics I argue that his full account of his concept of justice in the Ethics is - in relation to the organisation of the city - applied in the Politics. I do so by showing that in the Politics Aristotle applies notably two conceptions of justice from the Ethics: his general conception of justice as complete virtue and distributive justice as one his particular conceptions.