Aristotelian Justice – A Study By Artur Victoria

content of the law is important to have a logical way to work, unlike the works of Plato. Aristotle, says that legitimacy, reason and equity, are in a different plane of material law. That is, the citizen is one who is simply following the law, the maximum the law of the State, as Kelsen: For Aristotle, the legitimacy, of course, including compliance with the law. Clearly there was an attempt to give fair treatment to the concept of Justice. However, it ignores the fundamental values of the law, left his axiological replace logic of justice, because only in the guidelines of the principle of equality. Moreover, he questioned the Justice for not believing in the certainty of laws, when the values of the community away, but came close to this State policy that: while he agrees that life as the moral is the most convenient.

The vision of a substantive law subject to certain fundamental principles of the rule, not here to be an error of Aristotle, but probably an exaggerated concern with the historical tradition of balancing private and public power, and maintain order in cities -Greek state, it is true that the support of slave labor and, furthermore, expressed its interest in wars and other violations of self-determination, which may have been the main causes of its decline.

Later, due to the clear separation between law and politics, Aristotle was forced to admit duality “distributive justice” and “corrective justice” are two sides of the same coin. The consecration of the merits of each individual according to accepted legal norms as legitimate, no doubt, the material is the idea of distributive justice, which may be related both to the segment with the public and private, and both cases an expression of political

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