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Aristotle on Justice

384 BC–322 BC Greece

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But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.’

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.
We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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