Just people : virtue, equality, and respect / Mark LeBar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeBar, Mark, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Virtues.

Justice (Philosophy).

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

We often think of justice as a virtue that belong to states, societies, and institutions. It has not always been that way. Justice began as something between individual people, and only recently has its application to larger groups become predominant. In 'Just People', Mark LeBar makes a case for recovering the original priority of justice in and between individual people, as a virtue of character.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments and Dedication

Introduction

I.1 Aristotelian virtue ethics

I.2 Why Aristotelian virtue ethics?

I.3 Individual and society

I.4 Plan for the book

1 Aristotelian Virtues

1.1 A virtue must be conducive to living well, to eudaimonia

1.2 A virtue must be characterized by a mean (or intermediate) in passions and action

1.3 Reciprocity and wisdom

1.4 Virtue as a matter of seeing reasons

1.5 How it is we see reasons

1.6 Conclusion

2 Why Not Aristotle?

2.1 Overview: problems with Aristotle's account of the virtue of justice

2.2 Being mean to the mean

2.3 Unfortunate focus on goods of fortune

2.4 Cosmopolitan justice

2.5 Conclusion

3 The Concern of Justice

3.1 Aristotelian foundations

3.2 Authority

3.3 Aristotelian reflections

3.4 Ramifications and complications

3.5 The seen and the unseen

3.6 Conclusion

4 Respect

4.1 Passions and virtue

4.2 Emotion and judgment: seeing-as and significance

4.3 The passion of justice

4.4 Features of respect

4.5 Respect as seeing-as

4.6 Respect in practice

4.7 Summary

5 Just People

5.1 Beyond bare possibility

5.2 Particular judgments and rules

5.3 Ideal virtue

5.4 More just people

6 Other People, Other Responses

6.1 Why not justice?

6.2 Civility and toleration

6.3 Defections from justice

6.4 The Trespasser

6.5 Burdened justice

6.6 Summary

7 Justice and Equality

7.1 Aristotle's bad start

7.2 Equality of wealth or income

7.3 Luck egalitarianism

7.4 Relational egalitarianism

7.5 Hierarchy

7.6 Power and domination

8 Conclusion

8.1 Where's the beef?

8.2 The just person and social justice

8.3 Just people and the rule of law

8.4 Obligation to obey the law

8.5 Conclusion.

Appendix: Thompson's puzzle

A response to the puzzle

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-780150-1

0-19-780148-X

0-19-780149-8

OCLC:

1517863698