Justice (virtue)

Aristotle developed the idea of equity (epieikeia) to cover irregular cases so that "the ordinance is framed to fit the circumstances".

John Rawls saw justice as the typical virtue of the institution; Irene van Staveren saw it as that of the state, marked by such indicators as votes, legitimacy, public fairness, and distributive rules.

[9] Freudians consider that in the unconscious the image of the Father embodies a stern but fair justice;[10] Jungians similarly see the archetype of the King as representing the right ordering of society.

[11] Dante made Justice the virtue of his sixth heaven (the sphere of Jupiter), and illustrated it through such martial figures as Joshua and Roland.

[12] Sir Philip Sydney wrote of "justice the chief of virtues";[13] Edmund Spenser devoted the fifth book of The Faerie Queene to the same theme.