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Headword:
Dikaiosunê
Adler number: delta,1073
Translated headword: justice
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [It is] a knowledge of what one should choose and what one should beware of and [what is] neither of them.[1]
Now justice [is] the common virtue, the [virtue] that is opposed to the other virtues equivocally. But courage and justice differ, although being of the same genus [and being ranged] under the same genus, virtue. For instance, in one sense courage is a mean, in another sense justice, for [the former is a mean between] two vices, boldness and cowardice, while [the former is a mean between] excess and defect, out of which injustice [arises]. In fact, the being of injustice [consists] in these. And courage is concerned with some things, for [courage] relates to the endurance of dangers; and justice is concerned with other things, for [justice] relates to what is equal, both in distribution and in agreements. Thus [these] also are of the same genus.
Greek Original:Dikaiosunê: epistêmê hôn haireteon kai eulabêteon kai oudeterôn. dikaiosunê oun hê koinê aretê kai hê antidiairoumenê tais allais aretais homônumôs. diapherei de andria kai dikaiosunê, homo- geneis ousai hupo to auto genos, tên aretên: hoion allôs men hê andria mesotês, allôs de hê dikaiosunê: hê men gar duo kakiôn, thrasutêtos kai deilias, hê de pleonexias kai meionexias ex hôn hê adikia: en gar toutois têi adikiai to einai. kai peri alla men hê andria, peri gar tas tôn kindunôn hupomonas: peri alla de hê dikaiosunê, peri gar to ison, to te en dianomêi kai to en tois sunallagmasi. kai houtô men ta homogenê.
Notes:
See also
delta 1074,
delta 1075.
[1] A Stoic definition -- apparently of
courage, though there are textual issues -- from
Diogenes Laertius 7.92. (The remainder of the entry draws on Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 114.15-16 and 116.2-10.)
Keywords: definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 28 December 2003@01:38:16.
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