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We may remark at once that the Greek word that we trans late by "justice" has a very wide and extra-legal meaning. It covers and focuses the whole sphere of external moral action, and is indeed defined by Aristotle in its broadest sense as not "part of virtue but virtue entire,"" 5 or at least as "complete virtue as shown in relation to our neighbour. " 26 And Plato, as we shall soon see, is willing to apply it also to the inner life and to a man s dealings with himself. We might, then, translate it simply as "morality," or, if the word had not turned distaste ful from too much mouthing by a sour and crabbed ethics, as 25 Eth. Nic. prev next |