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Telemez 1 Özkan Bugra TELEMEZ 20300347 PHIL241.09 International Relations Instructor:Sandrine BERGES Deadline: 04-01-2005 Justice is the quality of being just or fair and in other words, a reference to the fairness and legality in the way people are treated by others. Several philosophers tried to find the definition of justice and approached different answers. Likewise, St. Thomas Aquinas had tried to explain what justice is and whether it is about passions, or about operations. He considered justice as a virtue, moreover, it is a general virtue and chief of the moral virtues. This essay discusses whether justice is concerned with actions or emotions and is it different from other virtues. Justice is concerned with actions, not passions and it is the most important virtue. I am going to prove it with refer to Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" 's Articulus 1, 3, 5, 9, 12 and give some actual examples to support his ideas. Justice is rendering...

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