Nicomachean Ethics¶
Aristotle. (2002). Nicomachean Ethics. Perseus Digital Library.
Cited by¶
4 citations across 4 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Equity
- Equity in the legal and governance sense is a body of law and reasoning that complements rigid rule-based adjudication with discretion-based remedies aimed at fairness in the particular case, an idea Aristotle (c. 350 BCE) introduced as epieikeia in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics.
This sourceOxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2009 [c. 350 BCE], Book V. Book V analyses justice as proportional equality and, at 1137a-1138a, introduces epieikeia (equity) as the rectification of law where it is defective owing to its universality — the corrective that adjusts a general rule to the particular case.
- Equity in the legal and governance sense is a body of law and reasoning that complements rigid rule-based adjudication with discretion-based remedies aimed at fairness in the particular case, an idea Aristotle (c. 350 BCE) introduced as epieikeia in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics.
Domain-specific¶
- Middle Ground Fallacy
- The diagnostic is whether the midpoint would survive one of the positions being shown unsupported, not whether the answer happens to fall in between. Not Aristotle's golden mean. The golden mean is an ethical doctrine that virtue is a mean relative to the agent and situation
This sourceBook II's account of virtue as a mean 'relative to us', explicitly distinguished from the arithmetic midpoint between extremes.
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- The diagnostic is whether the midpoint would survive one of the positions being shown unsupported, not whether the answer happens to fall in between. Not Aristotle's golden mean. The golden mean is an ethical doctrine that virtue is a mean relative to the agent and situation
Mechanisms¶
- Policy Symmetry Test
- The formal principle of equality it enforces — treat like cases alike — is famously silent about which likenesses count,
This sourceTreats justice as equality between persons and shares in due proportion, with equal persons receiving equal shares and unequal persons proportionately unequal shares.
- The formal principle of equality it enforces — treat like cases alike — is famously silent about which likenesses count,
- Relevant Asymmetry Test
- It is the operational form of the old principle to treat like cases alike and unlike cases differently in proportion to their relevant difference — with the weight resting on relevant.
This sourceStates that justice treats equals equally and unequals unequally in proportion to the relevant difference.
- It is the operational form of the old principle to treat like cases alike and unlike cases differently in proportion to their relevant difference — with the weight resting on relevant.
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