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Chapter 8: Aristotle's Virtue Of Justice

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In Chapter 8, Sandel begins to introduce Aristotle's take on justice. As Sandel mentioned, Aristotle breaks justice into two ideas, one that sees justice as teleological and one that sees justice as honorific. In order for justice to be teleological, we have to think about the purpose, end or essential nature of the social practice in question, and only then we can draw the line between what is right and what is wrong. Moreover, for justice to be honorific, one needs to argue about the telos, or purpose, of a practice to reason and argue about what virtues it should honor and reward. It is important to mention that Aristotle thinks that arguments and debates about justice are debates about honor, virtue and that nature of the good life. In

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