What is justice?
From the just city to the just tax code: what do we owe each other, and what happens when power ignores the answer?
7 perspectives
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Plato
Reality has two levels: fleeting appearances and eternal Forms
Aristotle
Flourishing (eudaimonia) is activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Confucius
Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself
“Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.”
Ibn Khaldun
Group solidarity (asabiyya) is the engine that builds and breaks states
Hannah Arendt
The banality of evil: harm done by thoughtlessness, not monsters
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
Immanuel Kant
The mind actively structures experience; we know things as they appear