
Others take Aristotle to be pointing to the limits of justice as a mean condition ( Tessitore, Aristide, Reading Aristotle's “Ethics”: Virtue, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy Google Scholar Collins, Susan, Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship CrossRef Google Scholar Burger, Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates).Ĩ For example: Tessitore, Reading Aristotle's “Ethics” Pangle, Lorraine, Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) Google Scholar Collins, Rediscovery of Citizenship Burger, Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates Pangle, Thomas L., Aristotle's Teaching in the “Politics” ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013) CrossRef Google Scholar. Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg, 189–99 Google Scholar Kelsen, Hans, “ Aristotle's Doctrine of Justice,” in What Is Justice? Justice, Law, and Politics in the Mirror of Science: Collected Essays, 110–36 Google Scholar). 3 : 207–38 CrossRef Google Scholar Williams, Bernard, “ Justice as a Virtue,” in Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, ed. Polansky, Ron, 151–79 Google Scholar Pakaluk, Aristotle's “Nicomachean Ethics” Kraut, Aristotle: Political Philosophy Curzer, Howard, “ Aristotle's Account of the Virtue of Justice,” Apeiron 28, no. Kraut lists a number of reasons a reader might be dissatisfied by book 5 with a view to responding to them in the rest of his chapter ( Kraut, Richard, Aristotle: Political Philosophy, 98– 101 Google Scholar).Ģ Most interpreters focus on what they take to be Aristotle's struggle in NE 5.1–5 to make justice conform to his understanding of virtue as a mean ( Polansky, Ron, “ Giving Justice Its Due,” in The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Ethics, ed. Burger supplies a chart intended to help the reader keep straight the manifold distinctions among the forms of justice ( Burger, Ronna, Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the “Nicomachean Ethics”, 223–24 CrossRef Google Scholar).



Pakaluk quips that one could say, “somewhat perversely, that Aristotle's definition boils down to: ‘Justice is seeking justice with justice’” ( Pakaluk, Michael, Aristotle's “Nicomachean Ethics”: An Introduction, 182 CrossRef Google Scholar). 1 Salem remarks that book 5 is “easily the most confusing book in the Ethics” ( Salem, Eric, In Pursuit of the Good: Intellect and Action in Aristotle's Ethics, 72 Google Scholar).
