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Justice

Giving each their due, and ordering a community rightly.

Key Terms

Greek

δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē)

Chinese

義 (yì)

Latin

iustitia

Across Traditions

Student Synthesis

Greek

Plato makes justice harmony among the parts of soul and city; Aristotle distinguishes distributive from corrective justice.

Confucian

Yì is rightness, doing what a situation morally requires, often against mere advantage.

Modern

Rawls tests justice as fairness from behind a veil of ignorance.

Comparative Analysis

Student SynthesisOpen Question

Where do these traditions agree, and where do they genuinely part? Open the editor to write the comparison in your own words.

Modern AI — the Contemporary Lens

A model inherits the inequities in its training data, and an aligned system encodes someone’s conception of fairness. Justice for whom, on whose authority?

Defined plainly: Training Data · Concentration of Power

Related Thinkers

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Plato

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Aristotle

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Rawls

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Mencius

Related Human Questions

Question

What is Justice?