Nicomachean Ethics and the theory of Justice as the centerpiece of thearistotelian anthropology
| Autor | Marcella Furtado de Magalhães Gomes - Roberto Vasconcelos Novaes |
| Ocupação do Autor | Doutora e Mestre em Filosofia do Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Profa. da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Direito, Dep. de Direito do Trabalho e Introdução ao Estudo do Direito - Doutor e Mestre em Filosofia do Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Prof. do IBMEC Minas Gerais, Curso de Direito |
| Páginas | 1049-1063 |
1050 • XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Nicomachean Ethics and the theory of Justice as
the centerpiece of thearistotelian anthropology
Marcella Furtado de Magalhães Gomes1
Roberto Vasconcelos Novaes2
Abstract: The article lies within the philosophy of Law and claims that the
Nicomachean Ethics is, indeed, a book in which Aristotle presents us his theory
of justice. Justice, according to Aristotle, is the central and architectonic virtue
of thepolis. Therefore, it is the mean of realization of the purpose (and, as such,
ofthe goodof theindividual andof thewhole communityie justiceis the
virtue that leads men to the achievement of their ends as human beings, the
eudaimonia. To do so, we discuss the Aristotelian justice in its concept, its spe-
cies and its characterization as an ethic virtue, as well as its relationship with
the law, with the ethical paideia and the equity. Our conclusion is that men
canonlyfulll theirendsashuman beingsbyinternalisingthe heteronomous
good expressed in the ethically constituted nomos, i.e. the virtue of Justice, and
by the conscious exteriorization of this good in their own respective praxeis. In
short, men may only become complete while ethical beings as they live in ethical
communities, i.e., in politically and legally organized communities. Our survey
is intrinsically theoretical and hermeneutical and our focus relies on the biblio-
graphical production.
Keywords: Philosophy – Ethics – Aristotle – Justice –Universal Justice – Par-
ticular Justice – Distributive Justice – Corrective Justice – law – Paideia – Eq-
uity – Polis – raison d’étre.
1. Introduction
1
Doutora e Mestre em Filosoa do Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
Profa. da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Direito, Dep. de Direito
do Trabalho e Introdução ao Estudo do Direito.
2
Doutor e Mestre em Filosoa do Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
Prof. do IBMEC Minas Gerais, Curso de Direito.
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