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Philosophical concept

Justice

Justice concerns action, relationship, and collective order. Across the texts it can be personal virtue, political arrangement, divine demand, or repair of harm.

Works
335
Passages
37,787
Thinkers
53
Traditions
16

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Justice concerns action, relationship, and collective order. Across the texts it can be personal virtue, political arrangement, divine demand, or repair of harm.

The Republic asks why justice benefits the one who practices it. Stoics count it among the cardinal virtues, while religious corpora place it in other relations to law and community. This page keeps those frames visible.

Lexical variants: justice, iust, just, δικ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. The Just AssassinsAlbert Camus · 5 passages
  4. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  5. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 41 passages
  6. MetaphysicsAristotle · 72 passages
  7. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 116 passages
  8. PoeticsAristotle · 13 passages
  9. PoliticsAristotle · 189 passages
  10. RhetoricAristotle · 882 passages
  11. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 13 passages
  13. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  16. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  17. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  18. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  19. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  20. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  21. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 116 passages
  23. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  24. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  25. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  26. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  27. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  28. On DutiesCicero · 68 passages
  29. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  30. On FateCicero · 0 passages