Justice as a Natural Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics

Aristotle thinks that justice is, like all the other virtues, a natural virtue. What does this mean? How does he accommodate its connection to and dependence upon convention, agreements, and laws—the sorts of facts that would seem to make it an “artificial” virtue, in Hume’s words?

Mitzi Lee is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her PhD from Harvard in 1996, and is the author of Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus (Oxford 2005).

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