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Justice (Hardcover)
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Justice (Hardcover)
Series: The Virtues
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A blindfolded woman holding a balance and a sword personifies one
of our most significant virtues. We find Lady Justice in statues
and paintings that adorn courts and other institutions of law,
symbolizing strength and impartiality. Yet why do we valorize this
virtue primarily as a quality of societies, and secondly as one of
individual character? We can trace the virtue of justice to ancient
Greece, where virtue ethics began its long evolution. There justice
was seen as one of the most prominent virtues - and arguably the
most important of the social virtues. With time, political
philosophy diverted focus to understanding justice as a property of
societies, and discussion of justice as a virtue of individuals
diminished. But justice as a virtue of individual character has,
along with the other virtues, reasserted itself not only in
philosophy but in social psychology and other empirical fields of
study. This volume aims to demonstrate the breadth of that thinking
and research. It comprises new essays solicited from philosophers
and political theorists, psychologists, economists, biologists, and
legal scholars. Each contribution focuses on some aspect of what
makes people just, either by examining the science that explains
the development of justice as a virtue, by highlighting virtue
cultivation within distinctive traditions of empirical or
philosophical thought, or by adopting a distinctive perspective on
justice as an individual trait. As the volume shows, justice begins
with the individual, and flows outward to make just laws and just
societies.
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