ABSTRACT
In this essay, I am concerned with justice as a personal virtue. Talking about justice by way of the virtues and moral psychology has two considerable benefits: first, it embeds justice in concrete practices and personalities, rather than leaving it in the abstract as just so much “theory” (accordingly, virtue ethics has sometimes been called a “‘no theory’ theory”). And second, it makes justice into something personal, as I think it was for the great thinkers in the history of the subject, beginning with Socrates and Plato and certainly including Aristotle, David Hume, Adam Smith and, looking back and towards Asia, Confucius (I would also add Nietzsche, although what he has to say about justice would be much too complicated for me to get into here).
