ABSTRACT
There are two senses to justice: one general and the other special. Justice in the general sense is what we have been discussing, for example, in Plato’s Republic. Justice in the special sense has to do with fairness in the distribution of gains. Thus, a man who sleeps with another man’s wife because of sexual desire commits selfindulgence and injustice in the general sense, whereas a man who does so to gain profit is not self-indulgent but commits injustice in the special sense (1130A25).
