The Relationship between Moral Justice and Practical Wisdom from the View of Aristotle

Abstract

Abstract. The theory of justice of Aristotle is one of the most important principles of Aristotelian ethics affected on many moral philosophers. But there is an argument. Is the justice the whole virtue or it is the part of the virtues? Is there any other virtue over all virtues comprehensively? Aristotle has differentiated between the concept of “justice as a comprehensive virtue” and the concept of “justice as the part of virtues” relates to the difference between “real mediocrity” and “intermediate of actions” in his opinion. In order to achieve the relationship between the justice and the practical wisdom and the recognition of the theory of Aristotelian virtue and mediocrity, first of all we refer to the position of the practical wisdom in this theory and then separate the concept of justice as “the comprehensive and full virtue” and the concept of justice as “the social action” from the view of Aristotle and finally we pay attention to the true justice and the practical wisdom as the real mediocrity. Since the concept of happiness is directly related to the explanation of the theory, first of all this concept of Aristotle’s view is examined.