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Arête December 2006, Honors College
Arête December 2006, Honors College
Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter
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Arête November 2006, Honors College
Arête November 2006, Honors College
Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter
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Arête October 2006, Honors College
Arête October 2006, Honors College
Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter
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Arête March 2006, Honors College
Arête March 2006, Honors College
Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter
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Natural Justice, Lawrence B. Solum
Natural Justice, Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Justice is a natural virtue. Well-functioning humans are just, as are well-ordered human societies. Roughly, this means that in a well-ordered society, just humans internalize the laws and social norms (the nomoi)--they internalize lawfulness as a disposition that guides the way they relate to other humans. In societies that are mostly well-ordered, with isolated zones of substantial dysfunction, the nomoi are limited to those norms that are not clearly inconsistent with the function of law--to create the conditions for human flourishing. In a radically dysfunctional society, humans are thrown back on their own resources--doing the best they can in …