[Revised entry by Mark LeBar on September 9, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
The notion of justice as a virtue began in reference to a trait of individuals, and to some extent remains so, even if today we often conceive the justice of individuals as having some (grounding) reference to social justice. But from the start, the focus on justice as a virtue faced pressures to diffuse, in two different ways. First, “justice as a virtue” is ambiguous as between…
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