justice also takes its measure from the relationship of one thing to another. In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry defines justice as “a symmetry of everyone’s relations to each other.”7 Justice is “an absolute good in itself” and is the measure of the other virtues since prudence, courage, and temperance can be virtuous only when oriented toward just ends.8 All external acts are socially consequential and therefore connected to justice in some way.9 Indeed, justice is “the whole of virtue,” according to Aristotle. The most excellent person, Aristotle says, is the one whose virtue is
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