Dôležitosť spravodlivosti ako čnosti
The Importance of Justice as a Virtue

Summary/Abstract: Every person revolts when experiencing something wrong or unjust. In justice is a harmful thing which has to be removed from the society, so that the justice will be re-established. But what makes the action righteous? Why should a person act justly? The paper proposesan answer to these questions. First, the author presents the classical concepts of justice elaborated by Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas. The justice can have two meanings: justice as a virtue and justice in relations among persons. Two meanings overlap but they are not identical. The focus of the paper is on justice as a virtue, hence a characteristic of the person, inasmuch justice is an expression of a person, and at the same time, it is a task to be achieved. When somebody is not a righteous person, he or she does not act as a person.

• Details
• Contents