What is justice?

What is justice?

Whence things have their origin, thence also their destruction happens according to necessity; for they give to each other justice (dikē) and recompense for their injustice (adikia) conformably to the ordinance of time. (Anaximander 1983)

References

  1. Anaximander. 1983. “Fragment B1.” In The Presocratic Philosophers, 2nd ed., edited by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and Malcolm Schofield. Cambridge University Press. ↩︎

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