Justice

Justice is harmony: each part of the soul and city doing its proper work.

Justice is giving each person their due: distributing goods by merit, correcting wrongs by equality.

Without God, there is no true justice. Earthly kingdoms without divine order are 'but large robber bands.'

Justice is the constant will to render to each person what is due. Natural law grounds it.

Justice is keeping covenants. Before the sovereign, there is no justice or injustice.

Justice is an artificial virtue: a human convention arising from the utility of stable rules.

Justice is the universal law of freedom: the condition in which each person's freedom can coexist with all others'.

Justice is the most important class of moral rules: those protecting the essentials of human welfare.

The prevailing sense of justice reflects the dominant class's interests. True justice requires the abolition of class.