ABSTRACT
Distributional justice is justice in the distribution of economic goods between the members of a society. For Plato and Aristotle justice was a personal virtue, the highest virtue of man. For the contemporary philosopher John Rawls, justice is a virtue of social institutions, that is of society. Not all authors distinguish between these two meanings of the term ‘justice’. In the present book, the distinction is regarded as important. I shall follow Rawls in considering justice and injustice as characteristics of society, not of the individual conscience.
